ATI Hardware Gets H.264 L5.1 Support

Driver updates aren’t news that often, but AMD/ATI video cards have consistently taken a PR beating in the community when it comes to H.264/AVC profile L5.1 support.  Looks like AMD finally added the feature to Catalyst 10.4 for all the l33t bittorrenters and x264 archivers out there.

 

ATI Catalyst – Video enhancements

H.264 Level 5.1 support

  • ATI Catalyst can now playback  5.1 level streams on all
    support players
  • Allows for playback of high resolutions (4Kx2K)