Is anyone using softhddevice vdpau with the nouveau driver? According to http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration my card (vp4.2) has full support. If this setup works, I want to try it since Nvidia is terrible about keeping their drivers up-to-date with even semi-recent stable kernels. I'm getting tired of having to decompress and apply patches to Nvidia's driver so if nouveau vdpau works then I'm willing to give it a try.
Any information on this is greatly appreciated.