Features Coming For The VLC 2.1 Media Player

[GreatEmerald]

Aha! So I was missing a symlink. After pointing r600_drv_video.so to vdpau_drv_video.so, I get...

You don't even need a symlink, the file it looks for is defined by environment variables. You can just export it in init scripts.

[Awesomeness]

nvidia gt 670 run perfectly, without it, 25% cpu, with it, 13%.

Even my ancient laptop uses only 3% CPU with proper VDPAU.

[Chewi]

How about vainfo?

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 0.33.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/va/drivers/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

$ ls /usr/lib64/va/drivers
nvidia_drv_video.so  s3g_drv_video.so  vdpau_drv_video.so

Aha! So I was missing a symlink. After pointing r600_drv_video.so to vdpau_drv_video.so, I get...

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 0.33.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/va/drivers/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.33 (libva 1.1.1)
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems VDPAU backend for VA-API - 0.7.4
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Baseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD

Looks good. I don't have a Blu-ray to try it with just now.

[GreatEmerald]

As far as I know. Is there a way to test it and be sure that it works?

How about vainfo?

[pandev92]

Neither for me.
Probably it works only for amd/intel users, or for intel only.

nvidia gt 670 run perfectly, without it, 25% cpu, with it, 13%.

[Thaodan]

Has that thing ever worked for anybody? At least for me it didn't.

As far as I know. Is there a way to test it and be sure that it works?

[mark45]

Has that thing ever worked for anybody? At least for me it didn't.

Neither for me.
Probably it works only for amd/intel users, or for intel only.

[Awesomeness]

It already supports libva so just use libva-vdpau

Has that thing ever worked for anybody? At least for me it didn't.

[Thaodan]

That is what we IT experts refer to as a bug. VDPAU decoding is (IIRC according to a videolan.org forum post) still declared experimental in 2.1.0 and will be off by default.

It already supports libva so just use libva-vdpau

[GreatEmerald]

Ah, all right, that makes sense.