[mythtv-users] VDPAU woos

[Mitch Gore]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Frank Merrill <fmerrill1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On my backend I always have this issue when starting to play a file:
> >> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.509 VDPAU: Failed to add buffer 12 of 17
> >> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.509 VidOutVDPAU Error: Unable to create VDPAU
> buffers
> >> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.510 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(): ERROR, A not in
> >> available, pause, or displayed
> >> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.510 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(): ERROR, B not in
> >> available, pause, or displayed A
> >> 2010-02-07 15:43:13.510 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(): ERROR, C not in
> >>
> >> Card info:
> >> mitchell at mythtv:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
> >> Model:           GeForce 8400 GS
> >> IRQ:             16
> >> Video BIOS:      62.98.29.00.00
> >> Card Type:       PCI-E
> >> DMA Size:        40 bits
> >> DMA Mask:        0xffffffffff
> >> Bus Location:    01.00.0
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The 8400GS card you have only has 256MB of RAM, which means you would
> > need to reduce the number of VDPAU buffers to get it to work.
> > In general, it will not always work depending upon the content you are
> > decoding with that much Video RAM, but in one FE I have that has such
> > a card, setting the vdpaubuffersize=12 will allow most content to be
> > played back using VDPAU, as long as I don't do any deinterlacing on
> > the content.
> >
> > You set the vdpaubuffersize in the filter section of a playback profile.
> >
> > Frank
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> Where is there documentation about using filters?  I've seen some, but not
> much.
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All of my content is MPEG2 720p or 1080i.  I really need de-interlacing so
are you saying I take it I should upgrade my card.  is 512mb really the min
I should be looking at?

-- 
Mitchell
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