New subject: xine vdpau not working?

10 Jan 2010


      Hello,
Switch off composing is not needed on latest drivers (it was bug, but it is fixed)
Except this I have similar problem, independent to composite desktop on or off.
CPU usage from xine is between 5%-50% and it drop video frames.
All libs (ffmpeg, x264, xine-lib-1.2-vdpau, xineliboutput) are from yesterday repositories, driver is latest beta (195.30)
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2134207
Jiri
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:17:19 +0100
From: Steffen Barszus st_barszus@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [vdr] xine vdpau not working?
To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org
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Am 09.01.2010 21:16, schrieb Simon Baxter:
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Theunis Potgieter Said:
I think it is your card that is the problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU shows that is should support up to
VP1, however if you look at mythtv's guide:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU it starts only at series 8 and newer.
It seems that your card can then only support xvmc for mpeg2 codec
only.  :(
Buy a a new 8400 GS (old brand model name but new architecture G98
chip) as indicated here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo
I've tried it in my production machine now, which has this card:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS
(rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
       Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 3463
       Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
       Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
       Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
       Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
       I/O ports at b000 [size=128]
       [virtual] Expansion ROM at eb000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
       Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
       Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Count=1/1 Enable-
       Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
       Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
       Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
       Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information <?>
       Kernel driver in use: nvidia
       Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nvidia
And while vdpau does work now, I get little CPU improvement (drops
from ~60% under xv to ~45% on vdpau), there's some tearing during
action scenes and some image freezing for a few seconds when switching
from live TV to recordings which I've had to "kill" on occasion.
Have you switched off compositing in the xorg ? Depending on your CPU -
this is to high CPU usage still. I have below 10% at HD and around 5% or
lower for SD while watching TV. Also denoise/sharpen of vdpau on SD
content provides quite good quality picture even on SD.
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Currently I only have SD content to watch and my Sony Bravia 32V only
supports up to 1360x668.  Any point using vdpau?
If you are fine with xv - but see above - the only time i came in that
range IMHO was back at the days where i still used my Turion ML-30 at
some of the HD stations (not all).