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jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 250

New NVIDIA drivers bring PureVideo to linux :)

As of the new 180.06 drivers NVIDIA is going to support PureVideo:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … dpau&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … dpau&num=1

Anyone tested them yet?

x86:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … 6-pkg1.run
x86_64:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … 6-pkg2.run

Last edited by jordz (2008-11-17 13:48:23)

SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: New NVIDIA drivers bring PureVideo to linux :)

Fantastic news!! Thanks for the heads up

Zibi1981

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 707

Re: New NVIDIA drivers bring PureVideo to linux :)

Why these drivers aren't yet in Arch's repositories?

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jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 250

Re: New NVIDIA drivers bring PureVideo to linux :)

The beta is in AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15152

But I haven't tested it yet..

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 404

Re: New NVIDIA drivers bring PureVideo to linux :)

Nice, although I'll wait till they hit [extra] because the drivers from AUR and [testing] always break my 32 bit apps.

jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 250

Re: New NVIDIA drivers bring PureVideo to linux :)

You probably want lib32-nvidia-utils-beta:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19453