2009-05-25, 11:50
Basically the title has the gist of the problem, I can specify VDPAU and it works brilliantly for x264, VC-1, MPEG-2, etc. It of course doesn't work for XviD and others, which I understand is just a limitation of that rendering engine as it now stands. That's all well and good. But absolutely none of the other rendering methods/engines work at all for me!
Software rendering flickers a jumbled static image, often the episode preview image as far as I can tell, while both the shaders ones flicker a green screen with random bits of code-looking text jumbled around on it. No moving images at all other than just the flickering.
I'm not TOO hard-pressed on this issue since of course as noted this leaves me still able to play any conventionally-encoded hi-def content (including my 1080i rip of Aliens, whoo!), and the irony of a 600-mHz Pentium III being only able to play hi-def content is pretty great (along with the puzzled and forlorn looks I get from my friends with their expensive Macbooks that have problems just playing fullscreen HD videos on YouTube, haha!). Still, it'd be nice if there was any thoughts out there on what it might be and how it might be fixed.
Software rendering flickers a jumbled static image, often the episode preview image as far as I can tell, while both the shaders ones flicker a green screen with random bits of code-looking text jumbled around on it. No moving images at all other than just the flickering.
I'm not TOO hard-pressed on this issue since of course as noted this leaves me still able to play any conventionally-encoded hi-def content (including my 1080i rip of Aliens, whoo!), and the irony of a 600-mHz Pentium III being only able to play hi-def content is pretty great (along with the puzzled and forlorn looks I get from my friends with their expensive Macbooks that have problems just playing fullscreen HD videos on YouTube, haha!). Still, it'd be nice if there was any thoughts out there on what it might be and how it might be fixed.