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Help with zotac mag / VDPAU - Beastofomous - 2010-06-27
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.4 on my new Zotac Mag and ALMOST everything has been working smoothly. I can play everything except for HD content in the form of H.264 it seems. Here is a debug log from my attempt at playing a H.264 1080p copy of Pan's labyrinth.
I can provide the entire debug log from the session or a log of me playing any other type of video if it helps.
http://pastebin.com/0kbBHDMp
Thanks in advance for any help/tips!
- Hannes The Hun - 2010-06-27
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=74833
increase the shared RAM size in BIOS
- Beastofomous - 2010-06-28
Just wanted to say thanks! that fixed it completely!
- Hannes The Hun - 2010-06-28
zotac idiots have this setting defaulted at 64MB which is much too low
256MB are needed for VDPAU-accelerated 1080p playback, but no need to go up to 512MB (old revisions of XBMC&VDPAU needed 512MB but not anymore)
- Beastofomous - 2010-06-28
I bumped mine up to 512 just for the shit of it, any possible issues?
- Hannes The Hun - 2010-06-28
depending on the overall amount of RAM you have; with 2GB you can leave it at 512MB GPU, with 1GB I strongly suggest 256MB GPU