Here I am, with a similar issue.
270.18 more or less made decoding acceptable. However, deinterlacing is really no there yet!
I get a very bad response from the interface when the mixers tests are being run, including the mouse cursor, with qvdpautest and Xorg at or close to 100% CPU usage.
HP 8740w laptop, Quadro 5000M, 16 GB RAM, Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64, up-to-date with security, updates and backports, x-swat-x-updates ppa
qvdpautest says:
Code:
qvdpautest 0.5.1
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 840 @ 1.87GHz
NVIDIA GPU Quadro 5000M (GF100GL) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
VDPAU API version : 1
VDPAU implementation : NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 270.18 Tue Jan 18 22:05:47 PST 2011
SURFACE GET BITS: 816.165 M/s
SURFACE PUT BITS: 901.827 M/s
MPEG DECODING (1920x1080): 78 frames/s
MPEG DECODING (1280x720): 175 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1920x1080): 43 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1280x720): 87 frames/s
VC1 DECODING (1440x1080): 62 frames/s
MPEG4 DECODING (1920x1080): 52 frames/s
MIXER WEAVE (1920x1080): 27 frames/s
MIXER BOB (1920x1080): 29 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL (1920x1080): 15 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 11 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 19 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (1920x1080): 6 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 6 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 7 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (720x576 video to 1920x1080 display): 20 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + HQSCALING (720x576 video to 1920x1080 display): 12 fields/s
MULTITHREADED MPEG DECODING (1920x1080): 24 frames/s
MULTITHREADED MIXER TEMPORAL (1920x1080): 14 fields/s
I have attached a debug tool output and the output of VDPAU debug and trace when running qvdpautrace.
One time qvdpautest could not run any of the mixer. I was not capturing anything at this moment, of course...
Code:
qvdpautest 0.5.1
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 840 @ 1.87GHz
NVIDIA GPU Quadro 5000M (GF100GL) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
VDPAU API version : 1
VDPAU implementation : NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 270.18 Tue Jan 18 22:05:47 PST 2011
SURFACE GET BITS: 835.312 M/s
SURFACE PUT BITS: 924.697 M/s
MPEG DECODING (1920x1080): 77 frames/s
MPEG DECODING (1280x720): 175 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1920x1080): 42 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1280x720): 87 frames/s
VC1 DECODING (1440x1080): 75 frames/s
Can't initialize MPEG4 decoder!
Can't initialize MPEG decoder!
Can't initialize MPEG decoder (1)!