Vdpau (video decode and presentation api for unix) is an open source library (libvdpau) and api designed by nvidia originally for its geforce 8 series and later gpu hardware, targeted at the x window system on unix operating-systems (including linux, freebsd, and solaris). this vdpau api allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video post-processing to the gpu video-hardware.

this package contains the vdpau wrapper and trace libraries.