Device Drivers and Video Controllers Implementing VDPAU
VDPAU is implemented in X11 software device drivers, but relies on acceleration features in the hardware GPU. (Currently, only the second generation PureVideo HD bit-stream processor in some of Nvidia's GeForce 8 series and later video controller hardware work as of Beta device driver version 180.06.) Video controllers for which VDPAU is not available from the GeForce 8 series includes the 8800GTS 320/640 MB editions and the 8800GTX. Later cards based on the G9x series cores (e.g., the 8400GS and the 8800GTS 512 MiB; G92 core) work with VPDAU. Nvidia currently has no plans to introduce VPDAU for the additional existing video controller products. All video controllers for which the driver implements VDPAU are listed in Nvidia PureVideo.
S3 Graphics added VDPAU to the Linux drivers of their Chrome 400 video cards. As of version 14.02.17 of its Linux device driver, VPDAU is available with the S3 Chrome 430 GT, S3 Chrome 440 GTX, S3 Chrome 530 GT and the S3 Chrome 540 GTX hardware.
ATI/AMD released an open source driver for RADEON 4000+ graphic cards featuring VDPAU acceleration.
Intel currently do not offer VDPAU. Nvidia hopes these GPU designers will make their products compatible with the open source VDPAU library and provide drivers with VDPAU acceleration by mentioning example names of hardware specific drivers for Intel and ATI: libvdpau_intel.so and libvdpau_ati.so. Intel has stated they are considering VDPAU.
Mesa as of v8.0 includes VDPAU for video cards that work with by Gallium3D.
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