Posts Tagged ‘video’
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The Nvidia ION powered Intel Atom processor netbooks and nettops are the rage these days.
Affordable, lightweight and powerful graphics processor.
The Nvidia ION is actually an Intel Atom CPU coupled with a Nvidia 9400m graphics chipset.
Most linux distributions install fine on most netbooks and nettops. However, their default video player may not be optimized for the Nvidia ION chipsets. For HD video playback, without tweaking the parameters of the video player application, the end result may be lacklustre and the playback may even be not in sync or skipping frames.
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Tags: 1080p, acceleration, atom, geforce, hd, intel, ion, movies, mplayer, netbook, Nettop, trailers, vdpau, video
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
For linux users whom have been drooling over Apple’s video editor, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premier Pro on the Windows platform, there is now an opensource video editor out on Linux!
Introducing the OpenShot Video Editor for Linux!
Easy to use “drag & drop” graphical user interface
Combine video clips and insert in nice transitions between the scenes.
Videos can be in 4:3 or 16:9 format.
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Tags: adobe, Apple, clips, drag and drop, final cut pro, frames, freeware, graphical, GUI, mac, openshot, opensource, osx, premier, transition, video, Video Editing
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Broadcom has recently released its driver source code for their HD Video Accelerator Mini PCI-E card.
Since the launch of this hardware to accelerate HD video playback on netbooks, only Windows drivers were supported.
Just days ago, they decided to release the source code for linux kernels 2.6.11 and higher.
Read the full article at Liliputing.com: Linux drivers for Broadcom HD Video Accelerator
Tags: accelerator, broadcom, hd, mini, pcie, playback, video, windows
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The Intel GMA500 is actually capable of hardware acceleration for HD video, but it requires some tweaking of the linux driver environment
At “Linux-Tipps“, there is a guide to enable VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) for netbooks with the Intel GMA500 graphics chipsets.
Once VAAPI is enabled, Full HD videos can be watched and CPU utilization will only be 30%.
Source : Liliputing.com
Tags: atom, chipset, drivers, gma500, graphics, hd, intel, netbooks, tips, tutorial, vaapi, video
Posted in Hardware, Netbook, Nettop, Tips & Tricks | 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
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