Posts Tagged ‘nvidia’
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
XBMC is a free opensource cross platform media player. It has its origins from the first generation XBOX game console, where XBMC was created as a homebrew media player making use of MPlayer sources as one of its cores. XBMC has since evolved with a huge and continuously growing forum with active discussions happening 24/7.
Its flexibility in allowing add-on scripts and user-created skins has also contributed to its popularity. User-contributed skins such as the “Aeon Stark” made it even more popular in the recent months. Video shown after the break.
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Tags: add-ons, aeon, audio, bluetooth, Entertainment, forums, hdmi, homebrew, ion, ITX, LCD, Live CD, LiveCD, lucid, lynx, media, mini, mini-itx, mplayer, nvidia, plasma, player, scripts, skins, stark, ubuntu, vdpau, video, wii, xbmc, xbox
Posted in Applications, Entertainment, Hardware, ITX, Media Player, Nettop | 1 Comment »
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
If you use any of the Nvidia graphics card of GeForce chipset 8500 and above, you can make use of its VDPAU functions.
VDPAU = Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
Since most standard linux distributions does not include it in their repositories, users have to download and install it manually, or if using Ubuntu, a new PPA repository can be added..
More on how to install VDPAU in the link below
Nvidia 195.22 Beta Linux Display Driver Available In Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA [Ubuntu]
Thanks for Webupd8.org for the heads up
Tags: display, gfx, nvidia, ppa, ubuntu, vdpau, video
Posted in Distro, Hardware, Tips & Tricks | No Comments »
Friday, July 24th, 2009
In the past 2 months, there has been much hype over Kernel Mode Settings (KMS) and Rootless X-Server. The inclusion of KMS into kernel version 2.6.29 is one of the major move towards KMS for enabling Rootless X-Server with various graphics hardware.
So what is KMS and Rootless X-Server and why the average linux user should be concerned?
KMS addresses the handling of video hardware which in turn displays the nice graphical user interface to the user. As its name suggests, means the kernel will set up the display’s resolution and depth mode (eg 800×600x32bits).
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Tags: ati, graphics, Hardware, intel, Kernel, kernel mode settings, kms, nvidia, root, security, terminal, threat, VT, X
Posted in Kernel | 3 Comments »
