[mythtv-users] VDPAU support on 0.21-fixes : updated

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 13:45:02 UTC 2009


Hi

2009/2/11 Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com>:
>
> Just a general question for a newbie, why is mplayer the default and
> not internal?

That's a good question... No idea...

It's a poor decision IMO ... probably a decision made a long time ago
when the internal player didn't play all file formats and somehow this
got forgotten and mplayer stayed.

As for why mplayer didn't give you any sound, you probably got an
error displayed in the log, but you didn't copy it here...
You need to configure mplayer to use ALSA.

Also, the mplayer in my repository supports VDPAU, but you need to
configure it to try vdpau codec first ; one way to do that is to
create a ~/.mplayer/config file with:

---Cut below
#Use ALSA for sound
ao=alsa

# Default to try VDPAU output and codecs
vo=vdpau,xv,
vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,

----Cut above


Jean-Yves


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