[mythtv-users] Vdpau and Nvidia 8200, not enough resources?

Stefan Reichel stefan.reichel at rapid-net.de
Fri Feb 13 19:14:00 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:56 -0500, George Mogielnicki wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:48 -0700, Travis Tabbal wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Stefan Reichel
> >> <stefan.reichel at rapid-net.de> wrote:
> >>         Hi,
> >>
> >>         i have some problems with vdpau and my Nvidia 8200 onboard
> >>         gpu. If i try
> >>         to watch tv using vdpau i get the following error at different
> >>         positions
> >>         in util-vdpau.cpp:
> >>
> >>
> >> What is your video ram set to? Some people have reported issues that
> >> went away when they increased it to 512MB.
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks to Travis and Mitchell, vdpau is working like a charm!
> >
> > I found out, that the memory displayed by nvidia-settings is wrong.
> > Based on this knowledge i changed the ram settings in bios, after the
> > VideoRam setting in xorg.conf didn't fix anything.
> >
> > Now my cpu usage dropped about 70-90% percent when watching tv, and hd
> > content(1080p) is finally watchable (at 15% cpu usage).
> >
> > Greetings
> > Stefan
> >
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> 
> Stefan;
> 
> What motherboard are using ? I'm about to start a build on Zotac GF8200 ITX.
> 
> George
> 
> 
Hi George,

i use the Jetway NC62K-LF link:
http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/AMD3.html

Stefan



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