Nouveau NV50 Enables H.264 Decoding

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nouveau NV50 Enables H.264 Decoding

A patch has been sent out by Nouveau contributor Ilia Mirkin that now enables H.264 video capabilities within the NV50 Gallium3D graphics driver for VP3/VP4 hardware...

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

[MuPuF]

Michael, you missed the follow-up patch to enable MPEG-4 too.

H-264 still shows some corruption on some videos so the support is not perfect yet but it is getting there.

Kuddos to Ilia!

[Serafean]

Has just been commited!
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...43b4539c26e4d7

KUDOS!

[madbiologist]

Has just been commited!
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...43b4539c26e4d7

KUDOS!

It's also been committed to mesa 10.0
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...23e3c3e41992e7

[Serafean]

I just compiled 10.01 on my Gentoo box running on the ION platform. Only now finished watching a Blueray with nouveau accelerated video decoding. Awesome work guys!

Serafean.