# NVCUVID

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvcuvid/5662>\
**Category:** CUDA Programming and Performance\
**Created:** [September 25, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvcuvid/5662 "2008-09-25T21:21:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![E.D\_Riedijk](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@E.D\_Riedijk](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/E.D_Riedijk)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvcuvid/5662/1 "2008-09-25T21:21:36Z")

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I think a lot of people do not know about this, but the video decoder on all cuda capable cards newer than G80 is apparantly now accessible from CUDA. Here is a pdf :  
[url=“[http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/sdk/website/projects/cudaVideoDecode/doc/nvcuvid.pdf](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/sdk/website/projects/cudaVideoDecode/doc/nvcuvid.pdf)”][http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compu...doc/nvcuvid.pdf[/url]](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compu...doc/nvcuvid.pdf%5B/url%5D)

I just happened to run into it reading the NVISION presentations that I could not attend.

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**Author:** ![kristleifur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/kristleifur/32/12055_2.png) [@kristleifur](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/kristleifur)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvcuvid/5662/2 "2008-09-25T21:35:20Z")

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> [@](#):
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> I think a lot of people do not know about this, but the video decoder on all cuda capable cards newer than G80 is apparantly now accessible from CUDA. Here is a pdf :
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> http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compu…doc/nvcuvid.pdf
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> I just happened to run into it reading the NVISION presentations that I could not attend.
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> [snapback]444193[/snapback]

Nay! Kiddest thou not? That’s awesome. Thanks for the tip!