What software(exceping drivers) do you need for maximum performance with blu-ray movies or .mkv files? Is there any place I can find linux codecs or video players?


I'm using Slackware64 13.37

just in case...
CPU: AMD Athlon II x4 640
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce G210

VLC: http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien...ackbuilds/vlc/

for a store bought dvd
VLC and make sure you have libdvdcss & libdvdread installed
basically fallow the instructions on the VLC web site.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-slackware.html

Thank you!

If you have the binary nvidia drivers and libvdpau, then rebuild MPlayer. MPlayer will detect that have vdpau support available, and you'll be able to use vdpau for hardware-accelerated decoding!

There are several SlackBuilds you can use, including one included with Slackware's sources. To also get support for playing commercial DVDs, run it with:

Edit the SlackBuild script and change the VERSION variable at the beginning to the current date, and it will pull and build latest version of MPlayer. The current versions of MPlayer feature multi-threaded decoding (details are on mplayerhq.hu), so this is recommended. (You'll also have to remove the obsolete --enable-large-files switch).

BTW, while none of the above will hurt you, you can really get by with doing nothing and just using version of MPlayer included with Slackware and/or the VLC package Samael linked to. I have a very similar setup to yours (Athlon II X3, Geforce 210), and both can play 1080p trailers from apple.com just fine.

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I agree that using vdpau is the best option, because it will take quite some processing power from the CPU without it.

I have a script to automatically detect whether or not vdpau can be used for a particular file, and to launch mplayer with the appropriate options:

http://duganchen.ca/mplayer-settings