mplayer vpdau not working

[Blackkitten]

Hello everyone!
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 on Acer Aspire 5920g ( CPU: T7500 GPU: GeForce 8600m GT with 185.19 beta drivers )

My problem is rhat vpdau is not working.

I installed mplayer using this "How to" http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=558538
And it seems running fine but when I try to play movie file

(
mplayer -vo vpdau /home/sam/Видео/Wrestler.2008.BD.Remux.1080p.H264.rus.eng.mkv )

I get something like this


MPlayer SVN-r29274-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing /home/sam/Видео/Wrestler.2008.BD.Remux.1080p.H264.rus.eng.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
....
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 1920x1080 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
================================================== ========================
Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca
Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [dts] afm: libdca (DTS-libdca)
================================================== ========================
[pulse] working around probably broken pause functionality,
see http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/440
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...


And only auidio is playing:(.

Can somebody help me, please?

[Blackkitten]

It's VDPAU not VPDAU!
My mistake:P

[xc3RnbFO8P]

mplayer -vo xv vpdau /home/sam/Видео/Wrestler.2008.BD.Remux.1080p.H264.rus.eng.mkv

[Blackkitten]

Thank you for replying!
But i found that option -vo vdpau works fine.
I was misprinting all the time...

[xc3RnbFO8P]

I don't get video output if I use mplayer -vo vpdau

[Blackkitten]

mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau -ao sdl /home/sam/Видео/Wrestler.2008.BD.Remux.1080p.H264.rus.eng.mkv

This works for me well for sure.
But in order to use vdpau I need to specify codec with "-vc" command.

By the way Smplayer doesn't work with vdpau. It just stops when I open file.
Moreover I can't launch vdpau support from GUI in both players(Smplpayer and Gmplayer) only command line works.

Simplicity is good, but what is the problem may be?

[rvm4000]

By the way Smplayer doesn't work with vdpau. It just stops when I open file.

And what does the mplayer log say?

I think it's necessary to disable some things (like the screenshots), or vdpau fails...

BTW, I added some support for vdpau in smplayer. From svn r2939 it automatically enables the vdpau codecs when the vdpau vo is used.

https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/testing

[andrew.46]

Hi rvm,


BTW, I added some support for vdpau in smplayer. From svn r2939 it automatically enables the vdpau codecs when the vdpau vo is used.

https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/testing

Thanks again for making all of this available! You have several PPAs available at the moment, can I ask if this one is the one you recommend people use?

All the best,

Andrew

[rvm4000]

Thanks again for making all of this available! You have several PPAs available at the moment, can I ask if this one is the one you recommend people use?

Well, as the name says, it's for testing. I will upload the packages there first, and people is welcome to test them but there's also the possibility that the packages could have problems.

[Blackkitten]

I downloaded .deb package from the launchpad. And now vdpau seems working.
The problem was in options. With vdpau post processing etc don't work. And the video doesn't play.

So it's great, now I don't have to manually choose -vo and -vc.
But will be there an option for auto-disabling all the features that don't work with vpdau? It would be very useful.

Anyway, thanks for help!

[_nico]

I installed so:


sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 1DABDBB4CEC06767 && gpg --export --armor 1DABDBB4CEC06767 | sudo apt-key add - && sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-185-kernel-source nvidia-185-libvdpau nvidia-settings smplayer mplayer-nogui

sudo nvidia-xconfig...restart KDE/GNOME Session (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)


sudo nvidia-settings...set your resolution


sudo aptitude install libavcodec-unstripped-52 libavutil-unstripped-49Now, SMplayer -> Optionen > Allgemein -> Video “vdpau”.
SMplayer restart!

It works fine.


VDPAU without tearing

...to the End


sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSectionor


nvidia-xconfig -no-composite

[abdusamed]

I enable vdpau using smplayer video tab perferences.. i can only hear not see anything..! i did the terminal command like myplayer -vo or -vc vdpau.....some prob...

[Linuxforall]

For vdpau to work, apart from compiling your own following andrew46's instructions and compiling your own x264 and ffmpeg with Fake Outdoorsman's method, using RVM's ppa is the best way out, make sure to use both the ppa, for mplayer and smplayer.

[abdusamed]

where is that method??

[Linuxforall]

where is that method??

Which one?

ffmpeg and x264 compile here at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095

mplayer here at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305181&highlight=mplayer