[mythtv] Fwd: Ticket #6182: VDPAU support for 0.21-fixes

Janne Grunau janne-mythtv at grunau.be
Tue Jan 27 14:47:18 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 27 January 2009 15:00:59 Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/1/28 Janne Grunau <janne-mythtv at grunau.be>:
> \> While I would indeed prefer open source drivers, you are missing the
> point,
>
> > VDPAU is unstable, nvidia considers it alpha quality. There are bugs in
> > their implementation, which is not open source.

> As to nvidia considering "alpha" quality, they put their 180.22 in the
> stable category. The way I see it work now, it's definitely working
> fine for me.

The driver is stable, VDPAU is not.

> > How is VDPAU open source? where is the source code to the VDPAU
> > implementation in their driver?
>
> The specs are..
> Anyone is free to implement vdpau in their own driver.

That doesn't  make nvidia's implementation open source.

> > I don't think it is in such a bad state
>
> I compiled trunk on Thursday, while Live TV worked well (thanks to
> VDPAU)

live-tv and recordings are working well even without VDPAU

> mythvideo was broken, none of the high-def files played
> properly and the sound of most divx being completely corrupted (lots
> of white noise)

please open tickets with a sample

> And the themes unfortunately are far from finished...

which themes? only unfinished theme is terra.

> and old themes make mythtv crash.

backtraces?

> That and the hundreds of segfault I got in a day..

Have openend a single ticket? I can't remember when I saw the last segfault, 
i.e it was a couple of weeks ago.

> > trac is not the proper place to track patches with zero chance of
> > getting applied.
>
> So why let people post patches there then? there are plenty of patches
> for 0.21-fixes in trac, none will ever make it to trunk because they
> fix stuff that have been fixed long ago in trunk or aren't relevant
> anymore...

Patches in trac don't have to be applied to trunk. Patches for 0.21-fixes are 
perfectly fine as long as they fix bugs or backport fixes from trunk. But 
backports of rather large new features have a zero chance of getting 
applied.

> You've applied a different set of critirias for this ticket than you
> did on other...

I happily close other tickets which backports features of trunk to fixes if 
you provide links.

> probably due to your anal view on "open source driver"

please stop trying to read my mind

Janne


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