olympia Wrote:It seems that there is a bug with vdpau playback, if autorefresh enabled and nvidia beta driver 185.13 is NOT installed.

Using driver version 180.41 with auto-refresh enabled, if the video playback is stopped, xbmc seems to crash and restart (without core dump).

If autorefresh is not enabled, then it's OK.
If Strict Binding is enabled, then playback is choppy (obviously, as this is not supported by the driver), but the videos stop well.

Debug log:
http://pastebin.com/m335b17e6

KeithZG Wrote:Just for the record, I'd like to mention that I checked a version out of the SVN and compiled it yesterday on my ancient 600mHz PIII with an 8400GS 512 PCI card (passively cooled and manufactured by Sparkle) slapped into it and a stripped-down Ubuntu install started with Ubuntu server (for some reason the Althon machine I was previously using as my projector computer won't POST with the PCI card in, and the only other semi-modern spare PC I have is way too loud for the job, when it's turned on it sounds like an SUV engine...but dear god, on the PIII even ./configure took something like an hour to run).

So far it's handled <b>every</b> video I've thrown at it, it shrugs off 720p x264/mkv files and runs the 1080i Aliens MPEG2/ts rip I have lying around, although for the latter it gets a bit slow right after skipping around but it smooths out afterwards and would be seamless if just watching a movie from start to finish.

Or in other words, VDPAU on an 8400GS has let me run a hi-def projector and content on a computer whose components are mostly from 1999! This is very awesome, countless thanks to the devs.

s7mx1 Wrote:You can install the missing vdpau library from http://www.avenard.org even you don't have nvidia hardware. They are just library after all.

add the following to your apt repository

Code:

deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos release/
deb-src http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos release/

then install it with

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-180-libvdpau

List of files in nvidia-180-libvdpau

Code:

/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-180-libvdpau
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-180-libvdpau/copyright
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-180-libvdpau/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libvdpau_trace.so.180.41
/usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so.180.41
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.180.41
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1
/usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so
/usr/lib/libvdpau_trace.so

s7mx1 Wrote:You can install the missing vdpau library from http://www.avenard.org even you don't have nvidia hardware. They are just library after all.

add the following to your apt repository

Code:

deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos release/
deb-src http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos release/

then install it with

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-180-libvdpau

List of files in nvidia-180-libvdpau

Code:

/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-180-libvdpau
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-180-libvdpau/copyright
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-180-libvdpau/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libvdpau_trace.so.180.41
/usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so.180.41
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.180.41
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1
/usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so
/usr/lib/libvdpau_trace.so

olympia Wrote:It seems that there is a bug with vdpau playback, if autorefresh enabled and nvidia beta driver 185.13 is NOT installed.

Using driver version 180.41 with auto-refresh enabled, if the video playback is stopped, xbmc seems to crash and restart (without core dump).

If autorefresh is not enabled, then it's OK.
If Strict Binding is enabled, then playback is choppy (obviously, as this is not supported by the driver), but the videos stop well.

Debug log:
http://pastebin.com/m335b17e6

motd2k Wrote:Bottom line, turn off xrandr. The way we switch doesn't play nice with VDPAU, we know it, and we can currently do little about it. Unfortunately 9.04 is going to ship with this a known issue.

Simply doing this fixes 9/10 problems. From this moment until we announce that we've moved the xrandr modeswitch code, I'm not going to look at any problem unless it's explicitly stated that Auto-Refresh mode is *not* enabled (the default behavior).

First person to say 'but it works in Xine' wins a cookie.

Hope this doesn't sound harsh, but going over the same thing 100 times gets quite dull!

motd2k Wrote:Simply doing this fixes 9/10 problems. From this moment until we announce that we've moved the xrandr modeswitch code, I'm not going to look at any problem unless it's explicitly stated that Auto-Refresh mode is *not* enabled (the default behavior).