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Hi,
I run a small Slackware-current system on a Brazos-based small-factor PC and on the whole, it works pretty well.
I recently compiled a 3.10.3 kernel, added libvdpau, vdpauinfo, recompiled ffmpeg, mplayer and vlc and did some tests.
The kernel initialize the UVD device all-right, and I could check with mplayer that ideed, I could watch a DVD-sized H264 mkv with about 7% CPU usage, which is quite cool.
Unfortunately, my very latest git pull of VLC still didn't want to use VDPAU and I actually isolated this message in the logs :
One of VLC devs told me that the VDPAU driver was telling VLC that it only supported Level 1.6 (which does not exist) while the file was level 3. So no go.
And indeed, vdpauinfo yells the following output (that's only the begining) :
The 16 indeed does not seem right, as according to this thread :
the output should look something like this :
Googling around, I saw that other people had this "Level 16" issue apparently :
I would guess that Mplayer isn't checking for this while VLC does, which would explain why the first works without issue while the second do not.
What could be the cause of this problem?
I run a small Slackware-current system on a Brazos-based small-factor PC and on the whole, it works pretty well.
I recently compiled a 3.10.3 kernel, added libvdpau, vdpauinfo, recompiled ffmpeg, mplayer and vlc and did some tests.
The kernel initialize the UVD device all-right, and I could check with mplayer that ideed, I could watch a DVD-sized H264 mkv with about 7% CPU usage, which is quite cool.
Unfortunately, my very latest git pull of VLC still didn't want to use VDPAU and I actually isolated this message in the logs :
Code:
[0x7f8908000958] main generic debug: looking for hw decoder module matching "any": 2 candidates [0x7f8908000958] vdpau_avcodec generic debug: video surface limits: 16384x16384 [0x7f8908000958] vdpau_avcodec generic debug: decoder profile limits: level 16 mb 9216 2048x1152 [0x7f8908000958] vdpau_avcodec generic error: decoder profile above limits: level 30 720x400 [0x7f8908000958] main generic debug: no hw decoder modules matched
And indeed, vdpauinfo yells the following output (that's only the begining) :
Code:
bash-4.2$ vdpauinfo display: :0 screen: 0 API version: 1 Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0 Video surface: name width height types ------------------------------------------- 420 16384 16384 NV12 422 16384 16384 NV12 444 16384 16384 NV12 Decoder capabilities: name level macbs width height ------------------------------------------- MPEG1 16 9216 2048 1152 MPEG2_SIMPLE 16 9216 2048 1152 MPEG2_MAIN 16 9216 2048 1152 H264_BASELINE 16 9216 2048 1152 H264_MAIN 16 9216 2048 1152 H264_HIGH 16 9216 2048 1152 VC1_SIMPLE 16 9216 2048 1152 VC1_MAIN 16 9216 2048 1152 VC1_ADVANCED 16 9216 2048 1152 MPEG4_PART2_SP 16 9216 2048 1152 MPEG4_PART2_ASP 16 9216 2048 1152
the output should look something like this :
Code:
Decoder capabilities: name level ref width height ------------------------------------ MPEG1 0 2 4096 4096 MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 2 4096 4096 MPEG2_MAIN 3 2 4096 4096 H264_MAIN 41 4 4096 4096 H264_HIGH 41 4 4096 4096
I would guess that Mplayer isn't checking for this while VLC does, which would explain why the first works without issue while the second do not.
What could be the cause of this problem?