Comment Re:So what does it do? (Score 1) 159
Have you tried watching accelerated 1080p video on a relatively new nVidia card? You'll soon find the hardware AVC decoder (Xvmc does not equal decoder) available in Windows is not available in Linux. GL works grand, but watching videos at any high resolution (native, not some upscaled Xvid or the like) is totally CPU bound in Linux while HW accelerated in windows.
It seems only the newest cards support HW video decoding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU
