Comments on: Compile mplayer with VDPAU support on Ubuntu

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:19:20 +0000

I’m glad it worked for you. In my newer article http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/05/29/how-to-compile-mplayer-with-vdpau-support-on-ubuntu/ I actually use the SVN of mplayer to built mplayer with VDPAU support.
I highly suggest you check it out as you will run a newer version and the article also has a script file that will do everything for you (download, configure, compile)

By: Danno

Danno — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:12:27 +0000

Thanks for the great howto. Built mplayer on an Atom 330 board with a PCI GeForce8400GS, plays all my 1080p x264 AC3-5.1 content really well. I had read time and time again how an Atom330 didn’t have the muscle to play hidef stuff, but after compiling mplayer for VDPAU, I average only about 10% on the CPU, occasionally spiking to 23% – the video card does the heavy lifting.
I had originally tried the multi-threaded ffmpeg libraries, and they seemed to work fine through the board’s integrated VGA port on the PCI-E bus, ran about 240% (of a possible 400%) for 2.35AR 1080p content. I need a DVI port for the TV, though, and there was simply too much data to push through the 133Mbps PCI bus. My x264 tracks are rarely more than 8-10Mbps (profile H4.0 2pass x264, AC3-5.1; the main system isn’t even breaking a sweat during playback, even with the sound being downmixed to 2.0, streamed across a gigabit LAN.
Couldn’t get the gui to compile, not sure why, not overly concerned. Also, did not need those two vdpau files; mplayer compiled without them.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to put the info up, appreciate it.
System : Jetway NC92 motherboard, based on an Intel 945GC/82801(ICH7), single 2G DDR2, eVGA GeForce8400GS PCI video card, nVidia 185.18.14 drivers, 32bit-SMP Slackware 13.0.

By: IR

IR — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:28:13 +0000

Great, although I didn’t quite catch the stuff under “How do you know if you are using the VDPAU capabilities?”. I just played a 1080p clip without specifying -vc ffh264vdpau -vo vdpau and compared against playing with those options and there is a huge difference ofcourse.

BTW any idea when NVIDIA will come up with mpeg4 part2 VP based decoder? Also seems like only one decoding instance with VDPAU currently – but there are two video processors in most of their GPUs. When are they coming up with support for moe than one?

By: muhammad negm

muhammad negm — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:54:19 +0000

Thanks that’s a perfect how to

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:29:20 +0000

If you are running Gnome and Compiz, try disabling Compiz.
Goto : System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects and select None.
You might have to restart your computer to get rid of Compiz.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:36:16 +0000

I get a similar error as denver:

Error 23 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:786

…when I try to use one of the VDPAU codecs like for example ffh264vdpau

any idea?

looks like the crash happens in config() after the VideoMixer is created. Following macro is printing the error:

/* MACRO for error check */
#define CHECK_ST \
if (vdp_st != VDP_STATUS_OK) { \
printf(“Error %d at %s:%d\n”, vdp_st, __FILE__, __LINE__); \
exit(1); \
}

vdp_st is NOT_OK after this call:
vdp_st = vdp_video_mixer_create(
vdp_device,
0,
0,
ARSIZE(parameters),
parameters,
parameter_values,
&videoMixer

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 with 180.44 driver on 8600GS and I’ve picked up the latest Nvidia patch for VDPAU which is “mplayer-vdpau-3532130″

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:19:55 +0000

I personally don’t know much about Linux MCE but if you have an option to add the sources repository that’s what you have to do.

By: lester

lester — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:30:55 +0000

I am trying apt-get build-dep mplayer and am getting add url to sources.list.

I am attempting on linuxmce, an MD. Checked the /etc/apt/sources.list and there are only minimal entries.

What entries should be included to be able to accomplish the above?

By: denver

denver — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:14:37 +0000

Got error:

Error 25 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:258

when playing one of the trailers.

By: Squishy

Squishy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:12:40 +0000

So i got it working..but whenever i load subtitles it crashes..any ideas..vdpau doesnt work with subtitles yet?
It says: Error 3 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:1113