[mythtv-users] vdpau question

GZ gzornetzer.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 05:45:53 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:20 PM, GZ <gzornetzer.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Also be warned in the current NV driver set (195.36.15 and older),
> >> > there is at least (1) serious bug that affects using an add on Video
> >> > card of a newer generation (8x00/9x00/2x0) with the integrated video
> >> > chipsets (6x00/7x00) causing MPEG2 sparkle/dropout/etc within both
> >> > MythTV and mplayer..
> >>
> >> I too would like more info. When you say "195.36.15 and older" are you
> >> only referring to the 195.* drivers or are you including earlier lines
> >> like 190.* ? I've got two frontends with integrated 7100 graphics and
> >> add in G210 card. Both are running 190.53 and have been working
> >> beautifully with VDPAU since december.
> >>
> > Now that I've gotten home, I can verify that it's the 190 series that is
> > behaving for me.  I have an Geforce 7100 motherboard with a GT220.  Vdpau
> > works with mplayer.
> > -GZ
>
>
> Sorry for taking so long to respond.. this list can be daunting to follow.
> :)
>
> Specifically the problem is with MPEG2 playback. All forms of
> VC-1/MPEG4 seem to work fine.
>
>
> start on this TRAC ticket I opened: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7571
>
> (If you look at the images attached to the ticket, you can see what it
> looks like..the last two show it the most clearly..
>
> NVIDIA linux guru Steven Warren was also able to reproduce the issue,
> and mentioned fixes coming in the 256 drivers.. all 8 pages are here:
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=136817
>

Hmmm, well, I'm building a new OS image with F13 and atrpms.  I think
they've got rpm's for the 256 drivers.  I'll try to test those in the next
couple of weeks.  I also see that you ONLY have the problem when decoding
MPEG2 and not h264 or VC-1.  I don't believe that I ever tested mpeg2 vdpau.
-GZ
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