[mythtv-users] VDPAU Error: DISPLAY PRE-EMPTED. Aborting playback.

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

2009/7/21 Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz>:

> VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 1024x576 MPEG2 VDPAU acceleration
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: The display was pre-empted, or a fatal error occurred.
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_video_mixer_render: An invalid handle value was provided.
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_display: An invalid handle value was provided.
> [vdpau] Failed VDPAU decoder rendering: An invalid handle value was provided.
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: An invalid handle value was provided.
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_video_mixer_render: An invalid handle value was provided.
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_display: An invalid handle value was provided.
> [vdpau] Failed VDPAU decoder rendering: An invalid handle value was provided.
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_presentation_queue_block_until_surface_idle: An invalid handle value was provided.
>
[snip]
>
> It seems to me that for the desktop corruption there must be a NVIDIA driver error.  As mplayer plays the mpg fine also suggests to
> me that there are also issues in mythtv with this hardware..

Plays fine in mplayer , not with VDPAU it isn't....

mplayer shows exactly the same error as MythTV : Display pre-empted...

You're using the VDPAU backport which can not recover from such error:
if you get such error it stops any playback.

use mythtv trunk, it can recover from such errors.