phoronix.com - 11/15/2008
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Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that closed-source driver has been released in beta form. This driver adds a new VDPAU API, which ...
phoronix.com - 11/18/2008
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The launch of the RV770 GPU earlier this
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phoronix.com - 11/15/2008
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Earlier today we shared that NVIDIA is bringing
PureVideo features to Linux through a major update in...
their binary display driver. The NVIDIA 180.06 driver adds VDPAU support on Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD operating systems, with VDPAU being a set of ...
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NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux
DV Hardware —
... Over the course of the past few months we have been saying
that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of
2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that
closed-source driver has been released in beta form. This driver adds a
new VDPAU API, which provides PureVideo-like features on Linux, adds in
CUDA 2.1 support, new workstation performance
optimizations, X Render improvements, and other improvements. More info at at Phoronix. NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux - More news ...
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... Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki 11:58 AM on November 15, 2008 Saturday Intel warning puts a chill on Microsoft AMD : Netbooks? No thanks AnandTech and techPowerUp! cover AMD's Fall 2008 Financial Analyst Day AMDZone reports Deneb to be called Phenom 2 FiringSquad has AMD CPU roadmap update 2009 - 2011 Is Apple building a search engine ? Expreview: Inno3D 9600 GSO+ arrived Phoronix reports Nvidia driver brings PureVideo features to Linux and posts Nvidia VDPAU benchmarks Lawmaker plans ...
NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux :: Posted by THRASHER2
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"Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that closed-source driver has been released in beta form. This driver adds a new VDPAU API, which provides PureVideo-like features on Linux, adds in CUDA 2.1 support, new workstation performance
optimizations, X Render improvements, and other improvements."
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