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[Solution] Enable Nvidia hardware acceleration in Ubuntu
Nvidia Hw Acceleration =
in Flash:
1. Download Flash player from website
2. Open readme in downloaded tar, and follow the instructions in the txt file. (put the .so library under firefox plugin, and copy files into local usr)
in VLC:
[Optional]: upgrade your driver using restricted driver menu.
1. install vdpau1 vdpau-dev vdpau-va-driver
2. check vdpau status using vainfo
3. Enable Hardware Acceleration in VLC under Input/Codec
If the video still lagging, in terminal type nvidia-settings and change the option under PowerMizer into 'Prefer High Performance'.
These methods able to get your nvidia driver to work without using cpu power, good for those have Intel Atom cpu.
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