LXer: Nouveau "NVC0" Gets Accelerated Video Decoding
 

Published at LXer:

With Git activity that took place this morning in mainline Mesa, the Nouveau driver now supports hardware-accelerated video decoding for this open-source NVIDIA driver with GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" and GeForce 600 "Kepler" graphics cards using their dedicated video engines...

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As a side note kernel 3.8 nouveau will support 3D accel on all GeForce cards:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/0...l-geforce-gpus

For those still using the blob, you may want to consider testing nouveau.