[mythtv-users] I thought I'd try VDPAU

[Julian Edwards]

On Thursday 03 March 2011 14:45:37 Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Dave Richardson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:40:18 +0000, Julian Edwards
> > 
> > <myth at julian-edwards.com> wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 02 March 2011 21:13:14 Jan Johansson wrote:
> >>>> This is not a VDPAU capable card.
> >>> 
> >>> Damn, I missed one small thing: I fully intend to replace that with
> >>> something like a GT240 once I figure out if I can safely get VDPAU
> >>> on my
> >>> box without breaking something.
> >> 
> >> You need to upgrade to at least 10.04 first.  It has working VDPAU
> >> but the
> >> drivers are old.
> >> 
> >> If you add this PPA:
> >> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
> >> 
> >> it'll upgrade your nvidia/vdpau drivers to the latest stable versions
> >> and it
> >> all works very well - I know, this is how I have mine set up.
> > 
> > Guidance to move to ubuntu 10.04 is not necessary.
> 
> Yeah, that raised an eyebrow here too. :)

Well, I said it because that is the earliest release that has nvidia vdpau-
capable drivers in the PPA ;)

It is *the easiest* way I know to get this capability, plus ...

> (However, moving to something that is actually still supported by
> the distro vendor might not be a bad idea anyway).

... that is the other reason.

> 
> > You can add the
> > newer nvidia drivers and vdpau libraries to older ubuntus.
> 
> s/ubuntus/linux in general/.
> 
> I can slap the latest nvidia binary bits on top of multiple ancient
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions too. Some people still love them
> a crusty old 2.4 kernel. ;)
> 
> > I'm not sure what the absolutely latest experience have been on the
> > nvidia 260.x drivers, but many folks on this avoid them.
> 
> 260.19.36 has been rock-solid for me on multiple systems, all running
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. (A couple of ion systems and a box w/a
> GT220. Haven't tried my 9600GT or GTX 460. Yes, I like nVidia cards.)

That PPA has 270.29 in it and it works very well for me on Ubuntu 10.04. :-)