[mythtv-users] Quadro NVS 140M and VDPAU - not working

[Bob Sully]

Hi all -

I have set up a Myth frontend on a reasonably decent Dell Inspiron D830
laptop (1920x1200) which also feeds my HDTV in the bedroom.

It has an nVidia Quadro NVS 140M video card with 256M RAM (which is
apparently the minimum video memory necessary).  The processor is a 2.6GHz
dual-core Intel Centrino chip, with 4GB of main memory.  The machine is
using wired Ethernet to talk to the network, not wireless.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit with JYA's latest 0.22-fixes binaries,
using the 190.xx nVidia drivers.

However, none of the VDPAU playback profiles work - period.  Slow, choppy
(basically unwatchable) video and audio, even with only 720p files, with a
lot of prebuffering pauses in the logs (but no other obvious errors) - it
seems that it's not even using VDPAU at all.

CPU+ is better but still noticeably choppy, and after about 10-15 minutes
starts bogging down and I have to kill playback.  Normal and Slim aren't
really any better.

However, from all I've heard, VDPAU should work with this setup.

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here...any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.  For what it's worth, my combined FE/BE downstairs (beefier CPU,
same OS and version of Myth) is running an 8600GT with VDPAU without any
hiccups.

Bob
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