VDPAU support in Ubuntu 9.10

VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) support included in Ubuntu 9.10. You just need to have installed nvidia-185 driver.

For testing:

mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau your_video_file.mkv

If you need add VDPAU support in smplayer, update your smplayer.ini file (~/.config/smplayer/smplayer.ini):

[%General]
driver\vo=vdpau
...
[advanced]
mplayer_additional_options="-vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau"
...

Than you will able to play video files with using H.264/X.264 hardware acceleration support.
Please check that your video card is support this functionality.