[mythtv-users] VDPAU on older pre-G98 8400 GS

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 21:17:26 UTC 2010


Hi

2010/1/6 Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org>:
> I have some evidence to the contrary.  It's starting to look like a
> mythtv issue.  I took the same recording file from the mythtv
> directory and instead of playing it with mythfrontend I played it with
> mplayer -vo vdpau -fs and it played without stutter.  Even adding
> :deint=3 turned on deinterlacing and it still didn't stutter.  But
> mythfrontend can't play it smoothly.

Except there you didn't use VDPAU hardware decoding ...

You must define which vdpau decoder to use
like -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,

>
> The frontend log says:
>
> 2010-01-05 08:06:21.361 TV: Attempting to change from None to Watching WatchingP
> reRecorded
> 2010-01-05 08:06:21.433 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded, main) -
> - begin
> 2010-01-05 08:06:21.601 AFD: Opened codec 0x8f8c1b0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)

No evidence of using VDPAU here either.

>
> mplayer says:
> MPlayer SVN-r30075 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

only using vdpau renderer there (no decoding) ; and no deinterlacing

There's no reason a pre-G98 wouldn't be able to be used for VDPAU ;
only issues with myth is maybe not enough memory. MythTV has a much
higher GPu RAM requirements than mplayer thanks to its more advanced
menu system and OSD.

The advantage of the newer 8400gs was VC1 decoding ; but this is a
non-issue these days as the newer drivers (since 180.44 I believe) the
drivers can do the decoding in software.


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