Hi Jon,<br><br>I have just installed a frontend with Ubuntu 10.10. It did not immediately start up with VDPAU either. <br>I looked into the log files and saw that it ran with the nouveau driver and not the nvidia driver.<br>
I finally fixed it by creating a xorg.conf file and selecting the nvidia driver explicitly in it.<br>Unfortunately I do not remember more details.<br><br>Best regards<br>Niels Dybdahl<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jon Whitear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@whitear.org">jon@whitear.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I recently upgraded my frontend-only machine from Mythbuntu 10.04 to 10.10. Now playback with vdpau is broken. Fortunately playback with the "normal" profile is fine. Here's what the log says when I try to play back with VDPAU enabled:-<br>
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2010-10-23 17:38:23.546 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.218 AFD: Opened codec 0x7b9ff70, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.218 AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.218 AFD: Opened codec 0x7ba03b0, id(MP2) type(Audio)<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.241 Opening audio device 'cards.pcm.iec958'. ch 2(2) sr 48000 (reenc 0)<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.241 Opening ALSA audio device 'cards.pcm.iec958'.<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.512 VDPAU Error: Error at mythrender_vdpau.cpp:1478 (#23, Unknown)<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.512 VDPAU Error: Failed to create VDPAU device.<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.512 VDPAU Error: No VDPAU device<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.512 Failed to create VDPAU render device.<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.512 VidOutVDPAU Error: Failed to initialise VDPAU<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.513 VideoOutput, Error: Not compiled with any useable video output method.<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.514 NVP(0), Error: Couldn't create VideoOutput instance. Exiting..<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:24.514 Unable to initialize video.<br>
2010-10-23 17:38:44.365 playCtx, Error: StartDecoderThread() Failed to startdecoder<br>
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I gather that this usually indicates the absence of of VDPAU libraries. I have removed and reinstalled the nvidia-current package (which is supposed to include the library) and tried installing from the Nvidia-supplied installer. I've also tried fixing a link like so (all suggestions served up by google.)<br>
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sudo mv /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so.OLD<br>
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so<br>
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jon@fe2:~$ ls -al /usr/lib/nvidia-current/vdpau/<br>
total 1624<br>
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-10-23 18:37 .<br>
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2010-10-23 18:37 ..<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2010-10-23 18:37 libvdpau_nvidia.so -> libvdpau_nvidia.so.1<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2010-10-23 18:37 libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 -> libvdpau_nvidia.so.260.19.06<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1650456 2010-10-05 02:37 libvdpau_nvidia.so.260.19.06<br>
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The Xorg log makes no mention of VDPAU. I have a 9500GT with 1GB RAM. I've run out of ideas. Any help is appreciated.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Jon<br>
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