<s>
Nvidia	B-General_Concept
NVDEC	I-General_Concept
(	O
formerly	O
known	O
as	O
NVCUVID	B-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
a	O
feature	O
in	O
its	O
graphics	O
cards	O
that	O
performs	O
video	B-Application
decoding	I-Application
,	O
offloading	O
this	O
compute-intensive	O
task	O
from	O
the	O
CPU	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
accompanied	O
by	O
NVENC	B-General_Concept
for	O
video	O
encoding	O
in	O
Nvidia	O
's	O
Video	B-Application
Codec	I-Application
SDK	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NVDEC	B-General_Concept
can	O
offload	O
video	B-Application
decoding	I-Application
to	O
full	O
fixed-function	O
decoding	O
hardware	O
(	O
Nvidia	O
PureVideo	O
)	O
,	O
or	O
(	O
partially	O
)	O
decode	O
via	O
CUDA	B-Architecture
software	O
running	O
on	O
the	O
GPU	O
,	O
if	O
fixed-function	O
hardware	O
is	O
not	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NVCUVID	B-General_Concept
was	O
originally	O
distributed	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Nvidia	B-Architecture
CUDA	I-Architecture
Toolkit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
renamed	O
to	O
NVDEC	B-General_Concept
and	O
moved	O
to	O
the	O
Nvidia	O
Video	B-Application
Codec	I-Application
SDK	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NVDEC	B-General_Concept
is	O
available	O
for	O
Windows	O
and	O
Linux	O
operating	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
NVDEC	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
proprietary	B-Application
API	B-Application
(	O
as	O
opposed	O
to	O
the	O
open-source	O
VDPAU	B-Application
API	B-Application
)	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
only	O
supported	O
by	O
the	O
proprietary	B-Application
Nvidia	O
driver	O
on	O
Linux	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Gstreamer	B-Language
has	O
supported	O
NVDEC	B-General_Concept
since	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
FFmpeg	B-Library
has	O
supported	O
NVDEC	B-General_Concept
since	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
mpv	B-Language
has	O
supported	O
NVDEC	B-General_Concept
since	O
2017	O
by	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
FFmpeg	B-Library
.	O
</s>
<s>
HW	O
accelerated	O
decode	O
and	O
encode	B-General_Concept
are	O
supported	O
on	O
Nvidia	O
GeForce	O
,	O
Quadro	O
,	O
Tesla	O
,	O
and	O
GRID	O
products	O
with	O
Fermi	O
or	O
newer	O
generation	O
GPUs	O
.	O
</s>
