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How to fix/repair broken Matroska (.mkv) files with Linux
A “two steps HOWTO” to fix your broken Matroska file. Downloading High Definition(HD, 720p, 1080p, x264 encoded) content via torrent or other isn’t unusual nowadays anymore. Unfortunately such content...
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NVIDIA VDPAU 180.11 test against .mts (AVCHD) and .mkv (Matroska/h264) playback
[UPDATE] Read here about the latest development of NVIDIA’s vdpau video output driver: Tag: vdpau NVIDIA’s hardware acceleration for HD (H264) content is now reality since they published their first...
View ArticleList of Currently Supported GPUs for NVIDIA's VDPAU hardware acceleration
Currently supported VDPAU GPUs NVIDIA released on 14th of November 2008 a driver for Linux, which is capable of accelerating H.264 encoded content on hardware. What is called NVIDIA PureVideo and is...
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The future of DivX 7
DivX 7 will be published, so DivX Inc. on January next year (2009). The company realized early, the time for HD content is coming, and they also tried early hard to place their, still on MPEG4/AVS...
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Mplayer-vdpau: Matroska (.mkv) and AVCHD (.mts) now both working
Nvidia released on 22th its new vdpau driver version 180.18, but not the corresponding mplayer-vdpau. One day later they also released a new mplayer-vdpau. The version 3263604. I’ve reported a more or...
View Articlemplayer-vdpau: The "Error 23" issue
There are some .mkv files, that refuses to play with the latest mplayer-vdpau (nvidia-180.18 + mplayer-vdpau-3263604. The error code, they return is: Error 23 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:724 Some recommend at...
View ArticleNvidia 180.22 with VDPAU officially released
Nvidia released officially on 8. January 2009 their new x86 and x86_64 display driver for Linux. There have been six prior Beta versions, which almost all were tested here. As of now Linux has an...
View Article[HOWTO] Workaround for a broken AVCHD playback with VDPAU on Karmic
The release of Karmic Koala inspired me to upgrade to this new Ubuntu 9.10 version and also to install the latest My Media System (a light Media Center for Linux), wich is version 1.1.2 actually. All...
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