> wrote <snip>: >> >> Assuming that you want to playback a H.264 video, then right command >> should be >> >> mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau <file> >> >> to force the selection of the HW accelerated codec from FFMPEG. Can >> anyone confirm that? > > This is correct. > > To use VDPAU hardware acceleration you need to specify a hardware codec also > - As I use VDPAU all the time i have this configured in my mplayer config > (~/.mplayer/config) as so: > > vo=vdpau > vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau, > > Which lists all of the VDPAU codecs, and allows for fallback to the other > codecs if a matching codec cant be found (thats what the trailing , is for). > I have never had an issue with video in this setup. > If you wish to run that from the command line I beleve the command would be: > `mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau, > <file>` > > My understanding is the VDPAU works on all GeForce 8 series or better cards > (8*** 9*** 2**), I'm not sure what driver version you need to use VDPAU, > however its working for me with 180.60. However I have only tested this with > a 9600GT and a 8600GT. > > As for it working with Xinerama, I can't comment - however it seams to work > _mostly_ using NVidia's TwinView which seams to provides all of the Xinerama > information to the desktop (ie. windows don't maximize over all my monitors, > just one). (As for the 'mostly' I only realy have an issue with subtitles, > particulay if I pass -ass to mplayer) > > Nich
There is also a xine-vdpau project which is necessary for vdpau support in miro, vdr, and others. There's a *.9999 ebuild for it in the berkano overlay. To use vdpau with miro, launch miro like this: miro --set xine-driver=vdpau The problem I'm having with it is with Blu-Ray rips. The problem is described here and a patch is included: http://www.nabble.com/Re:--xine-user--No-audio-from-Blu-Ray-rips-td23121024.html The problem is that the patch can't be applied to xine-vdpau because it was synced with xine-lib so long ago. I'm waiting for xine-vdpau to be integrated into xine-lib so the patch can be applied. - Grant
