[mythtv-users] which vdpau driver?

[John Pilkington]

On 25/04/18 08:37, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Recently I started having problems with mythfrontend, where it regularly 
> freezes and
> at times locks up the machine completely.
> 
> I tried different things without success, and finally replaced
>      mesa-vdpau-drivers.x86_64 17.2.4-2.fc26
> with
>      libva-vdpau-driver.x86_64 0.7.4-19.fc26
> and it seems to be stable now (early days though). I cannot be sure that 
> this replacement
> is the reason for the change in behaviour.
> 
> Do these packages provide the same api, and in general which one should 
> I use?
> 
> I should mention that the same .ts file that locked up the frontend 
> played without
> a hitch using 'mplayer' and 'mplayer -vo vdpau' (before the change) 
> which is why
> I suspect an issue with the frontend.
> 
> The graphics card is an Nvidia GT-710  with the Nvidia driver
>      kmod-nvidia-4.15.17-200.fc26.x86_64.x86_64 3:390.48-1.fc26
> naturally  the kernel is 4.15.17-200.fc26.x86_64
> 
> The frontend video is set up with "vdpau high quality", full screen 
> 2560x1440.
> 
> TIA
> 
I have the same hardware and the mesa-vdpau package, f26 and a recent 
master, v30-pre-579.  I saw a similar lockup for the first time 
yesterday - only the mouse cursor would move, but it had no other response.

But I was playing an HD h264 file segment created during experiments 
with ffmpeg - so assumed that was the cause.  I'll keep a lookout.