A new high-definition video player method based on GPU technology

Author

Min, Dong ; Rongcai, Qiu ; Ruiping, Wei ; Sheng, Bi ; Wenyi, Cai ; Jiayi, Xin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

27-31 May 2012

Firstpage

388

Lastpage

392

Abstract

At present, HD video player becomes more and more important in video area. But only by using CPU, HD video player can´t play smoothly because of low computing power. GPU is often used in high performance computing now. Therefore, a new HD video player method based on GPU technology is proposed in this paper. It uses open-source video codec solutions for the VLC and VAAPI hardware acceleration interface with VDPAU(Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) back-end support and NVIDIA´s graphics GPU for high-speed rendering. It is practically to get better results by using GPU technology on hardware accelerated player. The method that mentioned in this paper has been successfully applied to some television systems.

Keywords

Unix; application program interfaces; graphics processing units; high definition video; rendering (computer graphics); video codecs; CPU; GPU technology; NVIDIA graphics GPU; Unix; VAAPI hardware acceleration interface; VLC hardware acceleration interface; back-end support; hardware accelerated player; high performance computing; high-definition video player; high-speed rendering; low computing power; open-source video codec solutions; presentation API; video decode; Acceleration; Decoding; Graphics processing units; Hardware; High definition video; Streaming media; Transform coding; GPU; HD video player; Hardware acceleratation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyber Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1420-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CYBER.2012.6392585

Filename

6392585