[mythtv-users] Quicktime 1080p mov files smoother than 720p mkv (Debian)

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

2009/4/26 Jongi <jongitech at gmail.com>:
> Would the output below not suggest that vdpau is working?
>
> sh-3.2$ mplayer -vo vdpau -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 Video.mkv

Here you are not telling mplayer to use vpdau to do decoding, but only
to use the vdpau rendering.

You need to either tell mplayer exactly which decoder to use like
mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 Video.mkv

Or tell mplayer what decoder to use in which order.
For that create a ~/.mplayer/config file containing:
vo=vdpau,xv,
vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,


> Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)

If you were using vdpau hardware decoding, you would see here:
Selected video codec: [ffh264vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU))

Jean-Yves