Nouveau Gets H.264/MPEG2 Decoding From VP2

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nouveau Gets H.264/MPEG2 Decoding From VP2

Patches published this week allow for H.264 and MPEG2 video decoding on certain NVIDIA GeForce GPUs via the VP2 PureVideo HD hardware engine...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM5ODE

[birdie]

Yahoo!!

But please please implement power management first. It's more important for end users.

[uid313]

Damn

My GeForce 8600 (NV84) graphics card just died yesterday!

[[Knuckles]]

Ok so Michael, you have to come clean on this: What DID you put in the beer at the last Xorg developers conference? Clearly seems to be working.

Kudos to the nouveau devs!

[RussianNeuroMancer]

That great! Hope to see ION decoder support someday

[kokoko3k]

That great! Hope to see ION decoder support someday

Me too; as soon as PM and decoding will be implemented (oh, i need temporal deinterlacing too...), nouveau will be good for HTPC!

[Yorgos]

My GeForce 8600 (NV84) graphics card just died yesterday!

you are so lucky. now you can get an new amd

[pingufunkybeat]

Phoronix: Nouveau Gets H.264/MPEG2 Decoding From VP2

Patches published this week allow for H.264 and MPEG2 video decoding on certain NVIDIA GeForce GPUs via the VP2 PureVideo HD hardware engine...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM5ODE

Congrats to the nouveau team! Good work.

[Andrecorreia]

good work

good work nouveau team

[liam]

Does anyone know if this will work on G84M/NV50 (quadro) models?