[mythtv-users] Playback freeze/lockup + kernel panic

[Frank Merrill]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:30 PM, steve <networks1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Scratch this question.  Mplayer on fc12 comes with VDPAU support if you have
> the right card drivers installed, you just need to use the -vo vdpau switch
> when you call it.

And keep in mind that the -vo is just telling mplayer what to use to
render the video, not what to use to decode the video.
If you want it to use VDPAU to decode the video, then also specify
that on the command line (or in a configuration file) or it will just
fallback and use software decoding

An example might look something like:
mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,
or similar

>
> Another question, tho:  MythTV uses mplayer for playback, no?  If so how can
> I give it an identical set of arguments to what MythTV is giving it to play
> back a file?  I'm trying to see if it can reproduce the same lockup I'm
> getting from MythTV.
>

No, MythTV does not use mplayer for playback.
MythVideo can use an external player for playback, but the Internal
player for recordings does not use mplayer.

With that said, the place to specify what to use is in the playback
portion of the Setup>TV Settings>Playback>Page-3 (Playback Profiles)
Choose one of the VDPAU profiles, and if you want different settings
then the default ones provide, your better off creating a new profile
and defining what you want it to do.  But for VDPAU at least set the
renderer and decoder to use VDPAU.

Frank