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VLC 1.1.0 1st release candidate, with VP8 and GPU decoding...

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And let's not forget that this will have official 64bit support for OS X!! Hurrah!

Which also means our Handbrake 64bit encodes will finally work...

The VAAPI for GPU accelered video decoding on Linux is really interesting. I don't know enough about video to understand how low-level it is from the MPEG2 exemple on their web site: does it have to be a codec already supported by your video card as I understand, or can you code new ones with existing building blocks?

It needs to be a codec supported by the video card.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo#Table_of_PureV... for a list of Nvidia GPUs and which codecs they support.

Oh, so that's a disadvantage for VP8 against h264 on current cards. I wonder how well such a decoding can perform implemented on OpenCL/CUDA vs the pure "supported" version..

http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg;a=commitdiff;h=59b0bd5709404...

Does anyone know the status of DSP/GPU acceleration on OS X? What's the minimum specs to support it (if it's supported at all)?

Assuming it's using the same API that Adobe use (which I believe is true. Actually looks like they plan this for VLC 1.2, not this release):

The new video acceleration API is only available in Mac OS X 10.6.3 or later and is limited to GPUs models such as NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M. For more details you can look at Apple’s technote. Here is a list of the Mac models currently supported:

    * MacBooks shipped after January 21st, 2009
    * Mac Minis shipped after March 3rd, 2009
    * MacBook Pros shipped after October 14th, 2008
    * iMacs which shipped after the first quarter of 2009

(Mac Pros are not supported as of today)

from http://blog.kaourantin.net/?p=89

Too bad, my old 12" ppc powerbook is still OK for my usage except for some video (actually I have to use an old realease of mplayer).

According to the changelog, the GPU accelleration only comprises H.264 decoding on Vista/7 and Linux. http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS

So... no OS X speedups yet.

We have a patch, but not tested enough... Maybe in 1.1.1 or in 1.2.0

I love how the screenshot has all the UI buttons in awkward, weird locations.

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