[Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 62, Issue 46

[Abishek Goda]

Hi,

> Does anyone know if it is possible to get hardware-accelerated h.264
> decoding in Linux with Nvidia hardware?
In the sense, do you want existing apps to use the hardware for you?

>I have a friend's 7200 GS and
> before I buy a motherboard that will accept it, I'd like to know if it
> is possible to use it under Linux to decode h.264. I know the hardware
> is capable of it.
Again, do you mean the h/w is CUDA enabled or something like that?

> I would be happy if I could also receive some pointers on how to enable
> it if it is possible. Google is very unhelpful, only throwing up 2 year
> old forum threads.

>From what I know, I don't think there are direct implementations that
do this one way or the other out-of-the-box. But yes, you may have to
be more specific about what exactly you expect from the hardware and
linux!

Abishek Goda