The VAAPI for GPU accelered video decoding on Linux is really interesting. I don't know enough about video to understand how low-level it is from the MPEG2 exemple on their web site: does it have to be a codec already supported by your video card as I understand, or can you code new ones with existing building blocks?
Oh, so that's a disadvantage for VP8 against h264 on current cards. I wonder how well such a decoding can perform implemented on OpenCL/CUDA vs the pure "supported" version..
Assuming it's using the same API that Adobe use (which I believe is true. Actually looks like they plan this for VLC 1.2, not this release):
The new video acceleration API is only available in Mac OS X 10.6.3 or later and is limited to GPUs models such as NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M. For more details you can look at Apple’s technote. Here is a list of the Mac models currently supported:
* MacBooks shipped after January 21st, 2009
* Mac Minis shipped after March 3rd, 2009
* MacBook Pros shipped after October 14th, 2008
* iMacs which shipped after the first quarter of 2009
