Compiling MPlayer in Intel i5 750 processor + VDPAU?

[andrew.46]

Hi Laxman,

I found somewhere in the thread about compiling through multi-threaded way. Is that different from this one?

Unfortunately I know very little about the multi-threaded MPlayer so I can offer little advice except tp point you to the MPlayer site that mentions the details...

All he best,

Andrew

[Laxman_prodigy]

Thank you Andrew.

I have done exactly as you said and I would be very glad if you help me with this settings in the SMplayer preference:

Video: Output driver: vdpau or xv or what?

When I do vdpau, there is no video only sound. With xv it runs good. It is making me believe vdpau is not enabled. Kindly shed the ignorance/

Thank you.

[andrew.46]

Hi Laxman_prodigy,

Certainly if xv works the best this would be the best choice. You can see what is available on your system by running:

andrew@skamandros~$ mplayer -vo help
MPlayer SVN-r30881-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
	xv	X11/Xv
	gl_nosw	OpenGL no software rendering
	x11	X11 ( XImage/Shm )
	xover	General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
	gl	OpenGL
	gl2	X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
	dga	DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
	sdl	SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
	fbdev	Framebuffer Device
	fbdev2	Framebuffer Device
	svga	SVGAlib
	matrixview	MatrixView (OpenGL)
	aa	AAlib
	caca	libcaca
	v4l2	V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
	xvidix	X11 (VIDIX)
	cvidix	console VIDIX
	null	Null video output
	mpegpes	MPEG-PES to DVB card
	yuv4mpeg	yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
	png	PNG file
	jpeg	JPEG file
	gif89a	animated GIF output
	tga	Targa output
	pnm	PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
	md5sum	md5sum of each frame

Andrew

[Laxman_prodigy]

Thank you for the reply, Andrew.
This is what I got from the terminal:

MPlayer SVN-r30881-4.3.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
vdpau VDPAU with X11 (Does this mean that vdpau is enabled?)
xv X11/Xv
gl_nosw OpenGL no software rendering
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
gl OpenGL
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
fbdev Framebuffer Device
fbdev2 Framebuffer Device
svga SVGAlib
matrixview MatrixView (OpenGL)
aa AAlib
caca libcaca
v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
directfb Direct Framebuffer Device
dfbmga DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
gif89a animated GIF output
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame

It works perfectly fine with "xv" but not with "vdpau". Does "xv" consist of "vdpau" enabling or Mplayer takes it automatically?

Since I cannot enable that "vdpau" under video output drivers; I really am getting irritated.
Is it not required?

[Laxman_prodigy]

Please reply soon Andrew.

[andrew.46]

Hi Laxman,

Please reply soon Andrew.

Sorry, the 'real world' has been intruding . If MPlayer still fails with:

mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau < my_file >

where < my_file > is the name of your file you might have a good case for removing your build of MPlayer and considering using this PPA:

Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA
https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa

This contains the nvidia drivers, mplayer and smplayer in the one PPA. Hopefully this will enable vdpau on your system and make your life a lot easier .

Andrew

[Laxman_prodigy]

Thanks Andrew.

I will do it and report the results soon.

[Laxman_prodigy]

After this command,
mv -v $HOME/.mplayer/config $HOME/.mplayer/config_bak

I get this:

daulat@Buntaland:~/mplayer$ mv -v $HOME/.mplayer/config $HOME/.mplayer/config_bak
mv: cannot stat `/home/daulat/.mplayer/config': No such file or directory

What is happening here?

[andrew.46]

Hi Laxman,

mv: cannot stat `/home/daulat/.mplayer/config': No such file or directory

What is happening here?

This simply means that you have no pre-existing MPlayer configuration file in place and can proceed to create one. This is simply a safeguard so that a configuration file that somebody has carefully written is not overwritten.

Andrew

[Laxman_prodigy]

Thanks Andrew.