[mythtv-users] VDPAU, GT220 / and xvid videos

[Christopher Kerr]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 04:53:20PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 1/25/2011 16:45, Neil Cooper wrote:
>> >--- On Tue, 1/25/11, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote
>> >>The 9400M on the ION does not support decoding of MPEG4 ASP
>> >>(xvid), so MythTV fell back to software decoding.
>> >Is this specifically an ION issue or a 9400 issue?
>>
>> Neither, nor is it even an issue.  Cards prior to the GT2xx series
>> simply don't support decoding of ASP content.  The decoder chip
>> isn't designed to handle it.
>>
>> >Eeverything I've tried always plays back fine under MythTV, including direct rips of all my DVDs except for some reason my Pink Floyd "Pulse" DVD 2 disk set.
>
>    You will have to go into more detail here. I think I have a copy of this.
> I might be able to replicate the conditions of your problem. My copy has
> probably been converted to h264 but I can always re-rip it.

I have observed the same behaviour - VDPAU is simply unable to decode
the MPEG-2 stream on the "P.U.L.S.E" DVD's - IIRC, it resulted in a
very blocky picture followed by a crash, but this was back in pre-0.22
trunk. I transcoded to H.264 to avoid the issue and never got around
to chasing it up.

- Chris