[mythtv-users] VDPAU Error: DISPLAY PRE-EMPTED. Aborting playback.

[Bill Williamson]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:09 AM, David Shay<david at shay.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:23 AM, covert covert <thecovert at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Tortise<tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> > I get:
>> >
>> > 2009-07-06 01:07:48.233 VDPAU Error: DISPLAY PRE-EMPTED. Aborting
>> > playback.
>> > 2009-07-06 01:07:48.235 NVP: Error condition detected in videoOutput
>> > after Show(), aborting playback.
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>>
>> I had this problem recently with my Mythtv Installation. Updated to
>> Nvidia 185 drivers and it was all fixed. I also have 180 drivers.
>>
> Seeing this same thing on a PCI bus 8400 GT.  Neither 180.60 or 185.18.14
> fixed it. Running trunk 20947 right now. I *perhaps* *think* I didn't see
> this with either some older version of the NVIDIA driver or some older
> version of trunk, not sure which since both changed.  But I was also in
> "prototype" mode at that point -- now I am trying to temporarily use this
> machine as a "production" node. Especially since my Zotac ION is being RMA'd
> for a bad memory bus controller...
> I've tried without any interlacer at all, and still see the issue, as well.
> Also, to reduce any of the other possibilities, I'm running with a very
> light  window manager (ratpoison) instead of kde/kdm which I was running.
> Not sure where to go at this point - myth bug, nvidia driver bug, or what...
>  I'm back to XvMC and SD content right now.


try the VDPAU enabled mplayer to eliminate (or not) myth.