Nvidia 367.35 Linux Graphics Driver Released with VDPAU Feature Set H Support

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, July 15, 2016, Nvidia published a new long-lived graphics driver for UNIX-like operating systems, including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, Nvidia 367.35.

The Nvidia 367.35 video driver comes as an upgrade to the previous update, Nvidia 367.27, announced exactly one month ago, which introduced support for Nvidia’s recently released GeForce GTX 1080 and GTK 1070 graphics cards on Linux kernel-based operating systems.

However, this appears to be a small maintenance update bringing fixes for some annoyances reported by users since the previous release, but also to implement support for VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) Feature Set H to the Nvidia VDPAU driver on all supported platforms.

Thanks to the support for VDPAU Feature Set H, your Nvidia graphics card will be capable of hardware-accelerated decoding of 8K (8192×8192) H.265/HEVC encoded video streams. Also new,… (read more)

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