NVIDIA Helping Nouveau With Video Decoding

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Helping Nouveau With Video Decoding

While it isn't in the form of any complete documentation, a NVIDIA engineer has begun answering questions by the open-source Nouveau driver developers about video decoding with their H.264 engine...

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

[RealNC]

OK, that's a first. I'm quite surprised by this.

[thegeek6]

It's about damn time nVidia actually contributed to nouveau.

[oibaf]

The first result: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...f56a44dd8d5cc6

[Ancurio]

I think it's hilarious that some people have started believing that Nvidia "has finally caught up with AMD". I mean, it is by all means very commendable that Nvidia stopped completely ignoring Noveau, but please don't compare their "here, have a magic register value" once in a month to AMD which fully employs engineers working on Mesa/Gallium3D.