[mythtv-users] vdpau errors using nvidia-drivers-381.22

[Tom Dexter]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 3:04 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
> On 30/07/17 19:51, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Michael Heironimus <mkh01 at earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I saw that and found that it seemed to happen any time the video
>>> resolution wasn't a multiple of 4, which meant that some of my DVD rips
>>> where I'd cropped out letterboxing did not work. In my case, the videos
>>> played correctly with mpv but not with MythTV's internal player, but I
>>> never went back to find out if mpv was actually playing them with vdpau
>>> or if it was catching the error and falling back to software.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Heironimus
>>
>>
>> This was a really great catch. Nobody else happened to notice that the
>> resolution was causing this. They've now fixed that as of 384.59
>> apparently:
>>
>>
>> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1016720/vdpau-error-on-some-videos/?offset=2
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Tom
>
>
> But on the rpmfusion list there's a report of problems with audio over
> dp/hdmi with 375.82 and 384.59    I haven't tried either.
>
> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1019761/linux/no-sound-using-displayport-audio-with-375-82-or-384-59/
>
>

Interesting. That topic only seems to mention DP though. I'm using
HDMI with no problem using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13 under
Gentoo for what it's worth.

Tom