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Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by Zev on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @06:55PM (#1612700)
VLC is already doing some of that (an area where Mac users can envy their Linux brothers a bit).

You are aware that VLC does work on Mac, right?

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Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by drv on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @07:14PM (#1612743)
The point was that only the Linux and Windows ports of VLC have GPU acceleration currently.
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Re:Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal by Zev on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @01:30AM (#1613336)
Ah. I (mistakenly, it seems) thought that VLC used the framework that Apple released awhile back for hardware accel as well. Whoops. Ouch, at -3 for that, though.
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