>> I've been using the proprietary Nvidia driver and I just found out >> about Nouveau. Does it support VDPAU or are there plans to implement >> it? Does it support the 8400GS card? >> > > VDPAU is not supported. > > From what I've seen on IRC, it seems like a big mess, with each card > family having (several?) different video decode engine. > The only work I know about is an initial support for mpeg2 decode > engine on nv40 : > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?h=nvfx-vpe&id=538d6ef8aac1cd861f6336e24e79a315fe58aba0 > And afaik, the other engines are mostly unknown (no RE and no code). > > Some of these details could be wrong, in that case hopefully someone > can correct me :) > > About 8400GS, I suppose it's supported as well as any nv50 card, so > look at the nv50 column to see what to expect : > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix > > > Below the main IRC discussion I read about video engines. > [SNIP] > 23:04 < calim> mwk: yes; and my CPU says it doesn't need all this [SNIP]
Has anyone been able to reliably decode 1080p in software? It always ends up getting choppy and out of sync for me unless I use VDPAU. - Grant _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
