Just today, I acquired a VDPAU-supported Nvidia card. If you are a avid video watcher, VDPAU can bring a big smile to you because it gives you a way not to jog your processor while playing HD videos, for all the work mostly goes to the GPU. Since mplayer is a staple for me, I decided to create this build VDPAU support and with a patch and additional configure option so mplayer won't crash.

To take advantage of VDPAU, you need the accelerated Nvidia driver and that your Nvidia VC is VDPAU-supported.

[extra/xap] mplayer-vdpau svn30512

Description
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats: MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7-9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX, SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio & videocodecs but allows use of XAnim's and RealPlayer's codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It can play VCD/DVD and supports subtitles. This is a special build of MPlayer with support for Nvidia's VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix). Requirements: VDPAU-supported Nvidia video chipset and the NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver.

Files
http://zenwalk.pinguix.com/user-accounts/shingoku/mplayer-vdpau/

Also, we all noticed the HTML5 shift done by YouTube, it may sound all good, but the problem is the video is in h264! >:( Firefox/Icecat cannot play those by default! Curse Google! >:( As a workaround, you need gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer.

[extra/xap] gnome-mplayer 0.9.9

Description
GNOME MPlayer is intended to be a nice tight player and provide a simple and clean interface to MPlayer. GNOME MPlayer has a rich API that is exposed via DBus. Using DBus you can control a single or multiple instances of GNOME MPlayer from a single command.

Files
http://zenwalk.pinguix.com/user-accounts/shingoku/gnome-mplayer/

[extra/xap] gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.9

Description
Gecko Media Player is a browser plugin that uses GNOME MPlayer to play media in a browser. It should work with all browsers on Unix-ish systems (Linux, BSD, Solaris) and use the NS4 API (Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.).

Files
http://zenwalk.pinguix.com/user-accounts/shingoku/gecko-mediaplayer/

All you need now is Greasemonkey on Firefox/Icecat and HQTube for Greasemonkey to watch YouTube videos again

mplayer package renamed to mplayer-vdpau.