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I don't think you example card has got vdpau But he did not use a current nvidia driver so the card did not work for him. That's the simple reason why his older card worked and the new one did not.
I don't think you example card has got vdpau But he did not use a current nvidia driver so the card did not work for him. That's the simple reason why his older card worked and the new one did not.
No VDPAU here but after I built mplayer with some target arch optimizations it ran a lot better. There are other places I could tune for better performance if I wasn't so busy in silly forums all the time.
Using the correct driver would be part of setting the hardware up correctly to me.
No VDPAU here but after I built mplayer with some target arch optimizations it ran a lot better. There are other places I could tune for better performance if I wasn't so busy in silly forums all the time.
Using the correct driver would be part of setting the hardware up correctly to me.
It actually WASN'T a driver problem. The driver I used did in fact have support for the card. Hell if it wasn't I would have been stuck at VESA modes and I doubt the HDMI audio would have been there. BTW the card was used AGAIN this time with Ubuntu 11.10. Still the same problem.
I actually ended up finding what was causing this, largely because even after using the card with the latest version of Ubuntu I still had problems. Remember the benchmarks not too long ago regarding compiz? Well compiz was killing the performance (again the 430 doesn't have this problem) so even though I thought compiz was off, it wasn't. I had to completely remove it actually I uninstalled the ubuntu-desktop package entirely and went with Xfce. Bingo bango there was enough performance for decent video playback. Not unbelievable, but much better than it was. It was in fact usable. It's safe to say that it could be used for HD playback. However, it's just enough ...no more. There are still some very very rare cases where there's a dropped frame but it's largely not noticeable.
I would still keep my recommendation that since the price of the 520 is pretty damn close to a 430 I would take the 430 over it any day of the week. The 430 is an older card, but it is in fact more powerful.
If you dont want do decode 1080p50/60 (possible with some hd cams, but usually 1080i is default there, ) then a simple geforce 210 would be enough as well, but the price difference is getting smaller. The gt 520 is no gaming card, those are gts 550/gtx 560 and up. I dont get the point with compiz, i only use kde but never saw those performance issues even with a simple geforce 405 (rebranded 210). Maybe u does somethig wrong The mplayer example must be a joke as the test file is encoded at a very low bitrate. This can not be compared to max 40 mbit full hd which are within bd spec (8 mbit are reserved for audio). The best player currently is xbmc for those formats. vlc could use vdpau via a wrapper but this works very inefficiently. mplayer is ok with vc vdpau overrides, but with simple iso image support xbmc is my favorite.
The mplayer example must be a joke as the test file is encoded at a very low bitrate. This can not be compared to max 40 mbit full hd which are within bd spec (8 mbit are reserved for audio). The best player currently is xbmc for those formats. vlc could use vdpau via a wrapper but this works very inefficiently. mplayer is ok with vc vdpau overrides, but with simple iso image support xbmc is my favorite.
Considering a Geforce 2 can't accelerate H264/MPEG4 it would have been best if nothing was said at all. Maybe it was a joke though. Either way, there it is. Yes XBMC is my favorite as well.
If you dont want do decode 1080p50/60 (possible with some hd cams, but usually 1080i is default there, ) then a simple geforce 210 would be enough as well, but the price difference is getting smaller. The gt 520 is no gaming card, those are gts 550/gtx 560 and up. I dont get the point with compiz, i only use kde but never saw those performance issues even with a simple geforce 405 (rebranded 210). Maybe u does somethig wrong The mplayer example must be a joke as the test file is encoded at a very low bitrate. This can not be compared to max 40 mbit full hd which are within bd spec (8 mbit are reserved for audio). The best player currently is xbmc for those formats. vlc could use vdpau via a wrapper but this works very inefficiently. mplayer is ok with vc vdpau overrides, but with simple iso image support xbmc is my favorite.
Before you go calling it a joke you could try to download the file and play it yourself. I gave enough information so you can even get the correct one. Just in case I didn't:
Considering a Geforce 2 can't accelerate H264/MPEG4 it would have been best if nothing was said at all. Maybe it was a joke though. Either way, there it is. Yes XBMC is my favorite as well.
It actually WASN'T a driver problem. The driver I used did in fact have support for the card. Hell if it wasn't I would have been stuck at VESA modes and I doubt the HDMI audio would have been there. BTW the card was used AGAIN this time with Ubuntu 11.10. Still the same problem.
I actually ended up finding what was causing this, largely because even after using the card with the latest version of Ubuntu I still had problems. Remember the benchmarks not too long ago regarding compiz? Well compiz was killing the performance (again the 430 doesn't have this problem) so even though I thought compiz was off, it wasn't. I had to completely remove it actually I uninstalled the ubuntu-desktop package entirely and went with Xfce. Bingo bango there was enough performance for decent video playback. Not unbelievable, but much better than it was. It was in fact usable. It's safe to say that it could be used for HD playback. However, it's just enough ...no more. There are still some very very rare cases where there's a dropped frame but it's largely not noticeable.
I would still keep my recommendation that since the price of the 520 is pretty damn close to a 430 I would take the 430 over it any day of the week. The 430 is an older card, but it is in fact more powerful.
There are at least 3 different drivers that work with Nvidia cards in Linux. So far your logic that just because you were getting sound with your hdmi hasn't told me anything about which driver you are using. That it outside my experience as I never use sound over hdmi.
pfred1@spot:~$ glxinfo
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
That is what the Nvidia binary driver looks like. The 520 is in all likelihood a POS and I have heard plenty of bad things about Compiz too. Still, I think you've a better chance with it than what I am using.
In comparing the 520 with the 430 card, does it matter which version of the 430 it is? It looks like there's 3 different versions of the 430 or are the claims that the 430 is better applicable for all?
Which would you choose for a HTPC? All the 430 cards are 60W and the 520 is 30W, though. The 430 has either 64-bit or 128-bit memory bus but then most of them seem to be 1GB varieties and shop places list them as 128-bit but I thought they were 64.
But you can certainly run mediainfo on your own as well on it. Youtube uses normally below 10 mbps average as well, but that has got nothing to do with "real" bd movies. Your example is something that could be encoded very efficiently, no fast motions, similar colors, no noise. I would not compare that to a bd action movie
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