🎬 Supported Codecs
MPEG-2, VC-1 (WMV), some MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP8, VP9, AV1. NVDEC cannot hardware-accelerate every video codec or every video format / profile.
Nvidia Linux open GPU kernel module.
| Linux Distribution | What to do? Most suitable driver version: 610.57.04 or 615.71.09 |
|---|---|
| Fedora 1 | https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/catpieleaf/kernel-p03/ xorg-x11-server-Xwayland installed? |
| Fedora 2 | Enable RPM Fusion repositories first. xorg-x11-server-Xwayland installed? sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-open |
| Debian | Enable Debian’s contrib, non-free, and non-free-firmware repositories first. sudo apt install nvidia-driver nvidia-open-kernel-dkms xwayland |
| Ubuntu | sudo apt install nvidia-driver-610-open xwayland |
| openSUSE | sudo zypper install nvidia-open xwayland |
| CachyOS |
sudo pacman -Syu linux-cachyos-nvidia-open xorg-xwayland
https://packages.cachyos.org/?search=nvidia-open |
🧩 Vulkan GLSL Shaders
+ Vulkan DeblockForge-8X8 2.0 + Vulkan ChromaFromLumaPrediction 1.1
These shaders are only applied when a video is upscaled. More shaders soon.
🌐 Anywhere on Linux
NVDEC-Play 1.0 works across all Linux distributions without complicated installation or dependency issues. Download it, make it executable, and launch — it’s that simple.