diff --git a/board/freescale/imx6-sabresd/linux_qt5.fragment b/board/freescale/imx6-sabresd/linux_qt5.fragment
index ffa5f63eab..d4f26b163c 100644
--- a/board/freescale/imx6-sabresd/linux_qt5.fragment
+++ b/board/freescale/imx6-sabresd/linux_qt5.fragment
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 # ondemand governor with a mainline kernel.
 # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND is not set
 CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
+CONFIG_VIDEO_CODA=m
diff --git a/board/freescale/imx6-sabresd/readme.txt b/board/freescale/imx6-sabresd/readme.txt
index 2943f8b3cd..f09ff5caf4 100644
--- a/board/freescale/imx6-sabresd/readme.txt
+++ b/board/freescale/imx6-sabresd/readme.txt
@@ -86,4 +86,25 @@ Running gl2mark benchmark:
 
 # glmark2-es2-drm
 
+Testing video playback on the i.MX6 Sabre SD board
+==================================================
+
+As the mx6sabresd has two display outputs (LVDS and HDMI), it is necessary to
+know what is the connector that corresponds to the HDMI output.
+
+This information can be found by running:
+
+# modetest
+
+And search for the HDMI connector number. In our case it shows up as 37.
+
+In the mx6sabresd prompt run the following Gstreamer pipeline:
+
+# gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=/root/trailer_1080p_h264_mp3.avi ! avidemux ! \
+h264parse ! v4l2video1dec capture-io-mode=dmabuf ! kmssink connector-id=37    \
+name=imx-drm sync=0
+
+(The video used on this example was retrieved from:
+http://linode.boundarydevices.com/videos/trailer_1080p_h264_mp3.avi)
+
 Enjoy!
diff --git a/configs/imx6-sabresd_qt5_defconfig b/configs/imx6-sabresd_qt5_defconfig
index 832e326d6c..e20266e736 100644
--- a/configs/imx6-sabresd_qt5_defconfig
+++ b/configs/imx6-sabresd_qt5_defconfig
@@ -75,3 +75,23 @@ BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_GIF=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_JPEG=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_QT5CINEX=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_QT5CINEX_HD=y
+
+# NXP firmware package
+BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX6Q=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_FIRMWARE_IMX=y
+
+# libdrm tests
+BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDRM_INSTALL_TESTS=y
+
+# gstreamer-1.0
+BR2_PACKAGE_GSTREAMER1=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_PLUGINS_GOOD=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_PLUGINS_GOOD_PLUGIN_V4L2=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_PLUGINS_GOOD_PLUGIN_V4L2_PROBE=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_PLUGINS_BAD=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_PLUGINS_BAD_PLUGIN_VIDEOPARSERS=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_PLUGINS_BAD_PLUGIN_KMS=y
+
+# For automatic kernel module loading
+BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_MDEV=y