NVidia announces support for H.264 and VC1 decode on Linux

MythTV NZ » Blog Archive » NVidia announces support for H.264 and VC1 decode on Linux: "NVidia have announce a new API for hardware accelerated decode of video on Linux and Unix called VDPAU. This is awesome news for the Linux MythTV and Video community as the partial subset of NVidia’s PureVideo functionality provides a dramatic drop in CPU usage when handling complex video codecs like H.264 and VC1."