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Adding HEVC/H.265 support for NXP’s i.MX 8M chipset

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Benjamin Gaignard
Feb 17, 2021

Collabora’s recent efforts on the Hantro kernel driver have resulted in the addition of H.264 decoding support and multiple performance improvements. Continuing this work, we are now introducing High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, decoding support on NXP’s i.MX8 M chipset.

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Benjamin Gaignard

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