Video acceleration in Linux?

[Fackamato]

I know NVIDIA offers mpeg2 acceleration only (or am I wrong?).

What cards offer acceleration of xvid,divx,h264 under Linux? And another question; what does one benefit from compiling mplayer with NVIDIA's xvmc library?

Cheers :)

[Thunderbird]

There is no acceleration for codecs other than mpeg1/mpeg2. Nvidia's XvMC requires you to use the libXvMC.so from Nvidia.

[Fackamato]

There is no acceleration for codecs other than mpeg1/mpeg2.

Ok.

Nvidia's XvMC requires you to use the libXvMC.so from Nvidia.

Yeah I know, but what do I gain from it? Is it required to get HW acceleration of mpeg1/2? I.e. regular compiled mplayer won't accelerate videos with the gfx card?

[norman-ramsey]

Mplayer will use less CPU and more graphics, plus if you're viewing ATSC 1080i content, you can use the bob deinterlacer with the xvmc drivers, which looks much better.