[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“We had used the latest MPlayer SVN code and used the
NVIDIA-supplied patches that add VDPAU support to mplayer,
libavcodec, libavutil, and ffmpeg. This was done on an Ubuntu 8.10
system with the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, X Server 1.5.2, and the NVIDIA
180.08 driver. We had monitored the CPU usage while playing back a
sample H.264 video using the GL2, X-Video, and finally VDPAU. The
graphics card in use was a NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX 512MB running at
its stock frequencies. The motherboard in use was the ASUS P5E64
Professional and the processor being used was an Intel Core 2 Duo
E8400.”