[mythtv-users] VDPAU woos

Brent Bolin brent.bolin at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 14:09:28 UTC 2010


On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Frank Merrill <fmerrill1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my backend I always have this issue when starting to play a file:
>> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.509 VDPAU: Failed to add buffer 12 of 17
>> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.509 VidOutVDPAU Error: Unable to create VDPAU buffers
>> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.510 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(): ERROR, A not in
>> available, pause, or displayed
>> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.510 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(): ERROR, B not in
>> available, pause, or displayed A
>> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.510 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(): ERROR, C not in
>>
>> Card info:
>> mitchell at mythtv:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
>> Model:           GeForce 8400 GS
>> IRQ:             16
>> Video BIOS:      62.98.29.00.00
>> Card Type:       PCI-E
>> DMA Size:        40 bits
>> DMA Mask:        0xffffffffff
>> Bus Location:    01.00.0
>>
>>
>
> The 8400GS card you have only has 256MB of RAM, which means you would
> need to reduce the number of VDPAU buffers to get it to work.
> In general, it will not always work depending upon the content you are
> decoding with that much Video RAM, but in one FE I have that has such
> a card, setting the vdpaubuffersize=12 will allow most content to be
> played back using VDPAU, as long as I don't do any deinterlacing on
> the content.
>
> You set the vdpaubuffersize in the filter section of a playback profile.
>
> Frank
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Where is there documentation about using filters?  I've seen some, but not much.


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