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Nobody interested in H.264 hardware decoding

Since Snow Leopard added this missing feature. Somebody said it only supports 9400m, but actually all the modern NV cards should have the necessary parts to meet the demands. Can we modify some kexts to get this work? Or to deceive the API…

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@generalmilk Published 2010-06-22
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Since Snow Leopard added this missing feature.

Somebody said it only supports 9400m, but actually all the modern NV cards should have the necessary parts to meet the demands. Can we modify some kexts to get this work? Or to deceive the API to believe we are using 9400m to open this feature.

I'm happy to see there is already a hackintosh reporting it works:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20… ↗

I hope more good news can rally here.

It seems OpenCL is confirmed to work on Hackintosh,
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17… ↗
maybe it can provide an alternative way to GPU decoding.

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