[mythtv-users] Ion not recognized, no VDPAU

[Mark Kendall]

2009/9/7 ryan patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Kevin
> I have a zodiac ION board and run ubuntu also.  I also remember seeing
> warning messages in the X.org log file saying the nvidia driver
> "Failed to determine GPU name".  But mythfrontend did NOT give me any
> errors about VDPAU playback not working.  So I think the warning in
> the X.org log doesn't prevent VDPAU from working.
>
> But I never did get smooth playback on my ION board.  I got tons of
> "prebuffering pause" errors and also "video is 15.456 frames behind
> audio, dropping frames to catch up" errors.  I'm waiting for an
> updated 190 series driver from nvidia that actually works.  Then I
> will try getting the ION board working again.

I've had a zotac ion working perfectly well with trunk for about 6
weeks now (using 190.16).  You do need to figure out which
deinterlacer is optimum for you source material though.