[Nouveau] VDPAU & 8400GS support?

[Grant]

>> 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
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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