video decoding

Phoronix: "To Linux users these graphics cards are also interesting in that they fully support all of the current features of VDPAU for Linux video decoding, including MPEG-4 support.

We picked up an XFX GT220XZNF2 GeForce GT 220 1GB graphics card for this round of benchmarking on Ubuntu Linux."

Linux.com: "Last time around we took a look at using the ffmpeg-mt multithreaded version of ffmpeg in order to speed up high definition h264 decoding.

This time around we'll try to use more cores again; the hundreds of stream processing units that live on your graphics card."

Linux.com: "In this two-part article series I'll look at two ways to possibly improve your h264 playback with MPlayer: using multiple CPU cores and using the GPU to offload the decoding.

I'll include benchmarks so you can see the effect each of these has on performance."