vdpau problem - can't play 1080

[Stephen Warren]

Yes, that probably means that indirect rendering is being used for some reason.

[keyser7777]

Originally Posted by Stephen Warren

Yes, that probably means that indirect rendering is being used for some reason.

Yes, I can confirm that it's kwin blame. I've tested video play with compiz enabled and it works great, extremely low cpu usage. However, I don't know how to debug kwin, there's no output using:

kwin --replace

I'll ask around on kde forum how can one check if kwin is really using DRI.

[Dragoran]

It could be related to the way kwin binds/rebinds textures ... if it is calling glBindTexture for every texture (aka strict-binding in compiz) its known to be slow on G80+.

[Dragoran]

Originally Posted by Dragoran

It could be related to the way kwin binds/rebinds textures ... if it is calling glBindTexture for every texture (aka strict-binding in compiz) its known to be slow on G80+.

If this is the case it should be fixed in 185.13

[keyser7777]

Originally Posted by Dragoran

If this is the case it should be fixed in 185.13

Thanks for your suggestion.

I've just installed 185.13, but unfortunately that doesn't solved the problem.

[openmedia]

Just tried some 1080i video with 185.13 and my 8400M GS 256M laptop.

I don't have a 1080 screen and the video doesn't scale. I just get a blank video output and the following

MPlayer SVN-r29150-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvb://TV3.
dvb_tune Freq: 570000000
TS file format detected.
VIDEO H264(pid=450) AUDIO A52(pid=410) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 1300
FPS seems to be: 25.000000
================================================== ========================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Selected video codec: [ffh264vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU))
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
================================================== ========================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: H.264 VDPAU acceleration)
VDec: using H.264 VDPAU acceleration as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 H.264 VDPAU acceleration
[ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!
[h264_vdpau @ 0xca84a0]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264_vdpau @ 0xca84a0]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264_vdpau @ 0xca84a0]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264_vdpau @ 0xca84a0]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264_vdpau @ 0xca84a0]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264_vdpau @ 0xca84a0]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264_vdpau @ 0xca84a0]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

[cehoyos]

Originally Posted by openmedia

Just tried some 1080i video with 185.13 and my 8400M GS 256M laptop.

I don't have a 1080 screen and the video doesn't scale. I just get a blank video output and the following

I believe I don't understand the word "blank" here. Do you mean you get no video, but a huge window that never changes?

Does mplayer dvb://TV3 -vc ffh264 work fine? But mplayer dvb://TV3 -vc ffh264vdpau -vo vdpau does not work (=no video)?
In this case, please post the complete, uncut output of
mplayer -v -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau dvb://TV3

Carl Eugen

[openmedia]

I've just tried a new test, this time running lxde as the desktop manager to make sure I've got no compiz and minimal system load.

~/SVN/mplayer/mplayer -v -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau dvb://TV3 &> vdpau.tv3.log

This is a live 1080i H.264 stream with dual AC3 and HE-AAC Audio streams and I'm using mplayer r29150

By blank video I mean that no video is shown. The laptop has a 8400M GS Graphics Chip and a 1440x900 resolution display.

I've no issues with 720p streams and VDPAU, and the CPU isn't fast enough to play the 1080i streams with ffmpeg's software decoder.

Steve

[cehoyos]

Originally Posted by openmedia

~/SVN/mplayer/mplayer -v -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau dvb://TV3 &> vdpau.tv3.log

This is the first error message and, unfortunately, there is not much I can do (how much memory has your 8400M GS?)

[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_video_surface_create: The system does not have enough resources to complete the requested operation at this time.

Note that you could still submit a complete NVIDIA bugreport here as explained in the sticky to let Stephen confirm that this actually is a memory problem.

I've no issues with 720p streams and VDPAU, and the CPU isn't fast enough to play the 1080i streams with ffmpeg's software decoder.

Are you sure?
Please try -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all:skipframe=nonref

Carl Eugen

[ChoK]

I've reported the problem to kwin developpers herehttp://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188946