Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
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Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) is a royalty-free application programming interface (API) as well as its implementation as free and open-source library () distributed under the MIT License. VDPAU is also supported by Nvidia.
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- Instance of
- application programming interface
- Developer
- freedesktop.org
- Official website
- www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU
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- copyright license
- MIT License
- software version identifier
- 1.5
- programmed in
- C
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Functional range of the interface
- History
- Device drivers and video controllers implementing VDPAU
- Generic VDPAU driver
- Software that supports VDPAU
- Nvidia VDPAU Feature Sets
- libvdpau standalone VDPAU library
- See also
- References
- External links
Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) is a royalty-free application programming interface (API) as well as its implementation as free and open-source library () distributed under the MIT License. VDPAU is also supported by Nvidia.
The VDPAU interface is to be implemented by device drivers, such as the Nvidia GeForce driver, nouveau, or amdgpu, to offer end-user software, such as VLC media player or GStreamer, a standardized access to available video decompression acceleration hardware in the form of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) blocks on graphics processing units (GPU), such as Nvidia's PureVideo or AMD's Unified Video Decoder and make use of it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.