<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Lee Koloszyc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pantslessape@gmail.com">pantslessape@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 2/15/2009 10:35 PM, Paulin wrote:<br></div>
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<div class="im">Well tonight something strange started happening with myth playback.<br><br></div>
<div class="im">2009-02-15 22:25:44.397 VDPAU Error: DISPLAY PRE-EMPTED. Aborting playback.<br>2009-02-15 22:25:44.398 VDPAU Error: Error at util-vdpau.cpp:1124 (#2, The display was pre-empted, or a fatal error occurred.)<br>
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<div class="im">So is this<br>1. A problem with my configuration or build (using trunk 19992)<br>2. A known issue with VDPAU or should I report one<br>3. A known issue with myth VDPAU support or should I report one<br><br>
Any other thoughts.<br><br>steve<br></div></blockquote>This same thing started happening to me this weekend. Recently I have been having problems starting HD shows, which could be fixed by going in multiple times, going to an SD show first (which always works) or sometimes I would have to restart X. After updating SVN this doesn't seem to happen anymore, but now it dies during playing with the same error that you are getting. Seems to be a fairly new problem. Wonder what could be causing the preemption?<br>
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<div>I have had this happen on my trunk build of mythtv [20568], built it last night. The caps on my old NVidia 6200LE gave up the ghost recently, I was using ffmpeg which worked very well. Now that I purchased a 8400GS, I wanted to check out the VDPAU. I'm having lots of problems with it.</div>
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<div>1) Every once in a while when I execute mythfrontend, it brings up the theme background then crashes back to the desktop with just a "segfault" error. It'll crash like that twice in a row, then work. This may not be VDPAU since I haven't even initiated video playback at this point, but it's really weird and it did not do this with my 6200LE.</div>
<div>2) I have a studder problem when the OSD is up, lots of others have had this issue. Apparently, it's a problem with any overlays because turning on the closed captioning also makes the video unwatchable. I wonder if this is a limitation of VDPAU, or is it something that might actually work someday. I ask because we use closed captioning a lot. If it'll never be as good as ffmpeg, I'll just toss this new 8400GS and get something else that can do it.</div>
<div>3) Occasionally, selecting a recording will cause the frontend to crash reporting seemly random errors (different error description every time).</div>
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<div>-Greg</div></div>