🎬 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.
hardware-accelerated desktop pc / laptop video player for Xwayland
x86-64 linux - 0 % Telemetry - 100 % Privacy & Keyboard-Driven
x86-64 linux - 0 % Telemetry - 100 % Privacy & Keyboard-Driven
2K 4K 8K nvdec-play
A reference-grade portable desktop software combining Nvidia hardware decoding (RTX family), Vulkan GPU rendering, advanced mathematical video algorithms, statistical chroma reconstruction. Fixed-grid, edge-aware deblocking and mild detail-restoration GPU shaders. Recommended GPU: RTX 5060 / RTX 5050
🧩 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.