[mythtv-users] Finally updated my system, but VDPAU doesn't work

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:53:58 -0400, you wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 16, 2009, at 10:49 PM, backuppc at sundquist.imapmail.org wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:56:43 -0500,
>> backuppc at sundquist.imapmail.org said:
>>>>> Don't want to just get "another 8300", but the GT210 referenced
>>>>> above has 1 GB of memory,
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear, it only has 512MB. Not sure what difference that
>>>> would make for VDPAU
>>>
>>> That's right.  I got mixed up with another card I was looking at.
>>>
>>> I'm going to give it a try.  I'll report back when I see how well
>>> it works.
>>
>> OK I got it.  Actually came Monday but just had a chance now to put it
>> in.  The good, the bad, and the ugly:
>>
>> Good:  VDPAU works with this card.   No update to the driver or
>> anything.  I have a hunch my dell OEM 8300GS was really a 7000-
>> based card.
>
><<SNIP the rest of this stuff>>
>
>That quoted stuff above is just a blast from the past  when I got a new
>video card.  I had been happily running mythbuntu 10.04 LTS the last
>five years except it was starting to get less happy as it got long in
>the tooth (i.e. live tv didn't work any more, had troubles running newer
>browsers when I wanted to watch through-the-browser streaming stuff.)  I
>did the "if  it ain't broke, don't fix it" for as long as I could, but
>it was time.
>
>The mythbuntu update wouldn't run (too old I guess) and clean installs
>are better so I downloaded  both 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS.  I could only
>get the 12.04 DVD to boot however, and that was after I figured out to
>add acpi=off and irqpoll to the boot options.  So I now have only a
>three year old system ;-)
>
>I restored a backup of my old 10.04 system and mythtv upgraded the
>database and I had a new system.  However, I could not get it to play
>any shows.  I'd get a couple of seconds of sound, then some more, and
>then nothing, with Xorg taking up 100% of a core.  I had to ssh to
>reboot - only option.
>
>Looking at the logs, I see that it was timing out waiting for video
>buffers.  I did a search on this and the few instances I saw didn't
>seem to apply.
>
>Finally, I switched from VDPAU (normal) to OpenGL for playback and
>everything worked.  So yes, I can watch my shows now.  However, I
>have to turn the volume  up since the fan starts churning keeping the
>CPU cool.  This processing is supposed to be done on the card, but I
>can't get it to work.  I quoted my 6-year-old message above to
>indicate that yes, this card does indeed work with VDPAU (or at least
>it did back then).
>
>To try the usual suspects, I activated the fixes options and upgraded
>all the way to Myth 0.27 (12.04 is just 0.25 normally).  I did a
>complete dist-upgrade so I have everything latest (at least for the old
>LTS release).  I am running the 304 driver, and vdpauinfo says I have
>VDPAU available.
>
>The only thing I can think of is that card has only 512 MB of on board
>memory.  Has the minimum gone up to 1 GB in the last few years?
>
>The motherboard/CPU is old (core 2 duo), but that shouldn't be a
>problem, since even atoms work so long as you have a good nvidia card.
>
>Any suggestions welcome!
>
>Thanks.
>
>JS.
>
>If it is insufficient memory, maybe it's time for this:
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125427&cm_re=nvidia_gt610-_-14-125-427-_-Product

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