[krycek]

I recently updated the videocard in my XBMC machine (which in fact is a HP MediaCenter)

My old card was a Nvidia LE7500 and I replaced it with Nvidia 210 Passive.
When I inserted the new card I also re-installed the system.
This went well and XBMC booted. I checked then System > ?submenu? > Video and I noticed that I was missing the VDPAU option and several other options like Sync movie / Audio.

Then I tried to run a HD movie which gave stutter with the old card and it ran perfectly with the new card. (CPU0 : 5% CPU1 : 7%).

Anyone an idea why the settings are gone ?

[blm14]

try uninstalling and reinstalling the nvidia drivers, or using envy to detect which ones you should be using.

it's possible that you need a slightly different video driver version.

Also you could try uninstalling and reinstalling XBMC (doing so won't remove your userdata folder if you do it from PPA)

[tmyoungjr]

First guess is that you need the vdpau libraries

Code:

sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep vdpau

also what version of nvidia drivers are installed ?

Code:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

let us know what your results are

[krycek]

When I am @Home I will do that.
Tried to update the drivers but no luck, still missing some options.

Will let you know!

[ant_thomas]

I recently updated the videocard in my XBMC machine (which in fact is a HP MediaCenter)

My old card was a Nvidia LE7500 and I replaced it with Nvidia 210 Passive.
When I inserted the new card I also re-installed the system.
This went well and XBMC booted. I checked then System > ?submenu? > Video and I noticed that I was missing the VDPAU option and several other options like Sync movie / Audio.

Then I tried to run a HD movie which gave stutter with the old card and it ran perfectly with the new card. (CPU0 : 5% CPU1 : 7%).

Anyone an idea why the settings are gone ?

I'm guessing you just want to see the option for the sake of seeing the option? Because by the looks of it if HD stuff works great with the new card installed then VDPAU looks to be working.

[krycek]

@tmyoungjr

sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep vdpau gives me

libvdpau1 - install
nvidia-185-libvdpau-dev - install

Doing a apt-get on both gives me

nvidia-185-libvdpau-dev is already the newest version
libvdpau1 is already the newest version.

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version gives me

NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 195.36.24 Thu Apr 22 09:18:20 PDT 2010
GCC version: gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)

@ant_thomas

I was curious if I am the only one with this weird behaviour.
Looks to me that it aint normal that options disappear

[krycek]

anyone ?

[megacrypto]

i think it has something with xbmc installation rather than the nvidia drivers ... sorry i can't suggest what to do cause im not really an expert when it comes to versions and installations

[krycek]

I re-installed the system and now the options are available :S