[mythtv-users] VDPAU on CentOS 5 - Anybody?

[Friedrich Clausen]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Friedrich Clausen <fred at derf.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Jacob Steenhagen <jacob at steenhagen.us> wrote:
>> OK, so in my continuing saga, I have my 9500 GT card installed and did a
>> fresh install of CentOS 5.3 with the beta nvidia drivers and the trunk
>> MythTV packages both from atrpms-bleeding. I can get SD playback using
>> one of the prebuilt playback profiles (don't remember which one... I've
>> tried so much stuff) but anytime I try to enable VDPAU I get nothing but
>> errors... but not very helpful ones. The screen just sits there with
>
> Are you using the stock CentOS kernel? I would try and compile a
> vanilla 2.6.29.4 kernel using the CentOS .config (of course some
> things won't match but you will get the important modules, etc). Then
> rebuild the nvidia drivers once booted off the new kernel and see how
> you go. I find I get best results (certainly with Lirc) when using the
> latest, stable Kernel.org kernels. For the rest of the system
> excluding nvidia and Lirc I use the distro packages.

Just to reply to myself - also remember to rebuild your initrd image
with "mkinitrd" so that your system will have enough drivers to boot.

Cheers,

Fred.

>
> HTH,
>
> Fred.
>
>> "Please wait..." and needs rebooting. The console I started the frontend
>> from shows the following:
>> -----------------------
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:29.147 TV: Attempting to change from None to Watching
>> WatchingPreRecorded
>>
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:29.532 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded,
>> main) --
>> begin
>>
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:30.186 AFD: Opened codec 0xae14960, id(MPEGVIDEO_VDPAU)
>> type(Video)
>>
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:30.186 AFD: codec MP2 has 2
>> channels
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:30.186 AFD: Opened codec 0xae59140, id(MP2)
>> type(Audio)
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:30.193 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 2(2) sr
>> 48000
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:30.193 Opening ALSA audio device
>> 'default'.
>> ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL
>> /dev/mixer
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:30.210 AudioOutput Warning: Mixer attach error -2: No
>> such file or
>> directory
>>
>>                        Check Mixer Name in Setup:
>> '/dev/mixer'
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:32.673 WriteAudio: buffer
>> underrun
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:32.929 WriteAudio: buffer
>> underrun
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:42.846 VDPAU Error: DISPLAY PRE-EMPTED. Aborting
>> playback.
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:42.846 VideoOutputXv: Init VDPAU osd
>> failed.
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:42.849 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 640 H:
>> 480
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:43.858 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded,
>> main) -- end
>> ok
>>
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:43.858 TV: Changing from None to Watching
>> WatchingPreRecorded
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:46.486 Realtime priority would require SUID as
>> root.
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:49.289 NVP(0): Timed out waiting for free video
>> buffers.
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:51.516 NVP(0): Timed out waiting for free video
>> buffers.
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:53.737 NVP(0): Timed out waiting for free video
>> buffers.
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:53.864
>> OpenGLVideoSync()
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:53.889 Video timing method: SGI
>> OpenGL
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:53.908 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated
>> 1
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:53.923 NVP: Error condition detected in videoOutput
>> after Show(), aborting
>> playback.
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:53.923 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- closing opengl
>> vsync
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:54.213 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded,
>> main) --
>> begin
>>
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:54.531 AFD: Opened codec 0xb20e5c0, id(MPEGVIDEO_VDPAU)
>> type(Video)
>>
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:54.532 AFD: codec MP2 has 2
>> channels
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:54.532 AFD: Opened codec 0xb20e950, id(MP2)
>> type(Audio)
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:54.533 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 2(2) sr
>> 48000
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:54.533 Opening ALSA audio device
>> 'default'.
>> ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL
>> /dev/mixer
>> 2009-05-26 19:46:54.536 AudioOutput Warning: Mixer attach error -2: No
>> such file or
>> directory
>>
>>                        Check Mixer Name in Setup:
>> '/dev/mixer'
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:14.583 playCtx, Error: StartDecoderThread() Failed to
>> startdecoder
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:47.838 VDPAU Error: DISPLAY PRE-EMPTED. Aborting
>> playback.
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:47.838 VideoOutputXv: Init VDPAU osd
>> failed.
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:47.841 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 640 H:
>> 480
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:48.629 Realtime priority would require SUID as
>> root.
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:48.631
>> OpenGLVideoSync()
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:48.658 Video timing method: SGI
>> OpenGL
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:48.674 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- closing opengl
>> vsync
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:48.686 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded,
>> main) -- end
>> error
>>
>> 2009-05-26 19:47:48.687 TV: RestartAllNVPs(): Failed to restart new main
>> context (was pip
>> context)
>> ------------------------
>> I'm beating my head against a wall here... anybody out there have any
>> help for my poor wall?
>>
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