Announcement: libvdpau is moving to its own package

[cehoyos]

Originally Posted by deadlycheese

So, if we can trust the vdpauinfo information, I would expect the 8100 to have the same capabilities as the NVS 140M chipset in my laptop.

No.
It's feature set A vs feature set B;-)

Thank you for testing, Carl Eugen

[deadlycheese]

Well, I'm sure you must be right, you probably know as much about this as anyone ... it is interesting that vdpauinfo doesn't report any significant difference among the two chipsets, however.

I mean, diffing the reports from the two chipsets (NVS 140M vs. 8100) showed only the most trivial change:

$ diff -b vdpauinfo.nvs140M.out vdpauinfo.8100.out 
19,20c19,20
< H264_MAIN            41  8192  2048  2048
< H264_HIGH            41  8192  2048  2048
---
> H264_MAIN            41  8190  2032  2048
> H264_HIGH            41  8190  2032  2048

Are you saying that vdpauinfo needs more work?

[cehoyos]

Originally Posted by deadlycheese

$ diff -b vdpauinfo.nvs140M.out vdpauinfo.8100.out 
19,20c19,20
< H264_MAIN            41  8192  2048  2048
< H264_HIGH            41  8192  2048  2048
---
> H264_MAIN            41  8190  2032  2048
> H264_HIGH            41  8190  2032  2048

Are you saying that vdpauinfo needs more work?

Absolutely not.
It correctly shows the only easily visible and reliable difference between NVIDIA feature sets A and B and allows us to know about the other difference - partial vs complete acceleration - that is much more difficult to see on most systems.

Carl Eugen

[MartinKG]

Originally Posted by Stephen Warren

We have released a new version of our MPlayer patches that fix the problem deadlycheese saw. See ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vd...753835.tar.bz2.

when i try to compile mplayer-vdpau on fc11 i get the following error messages:

cc -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.. -Wundef -Wdisabled-optimization -Wno-pointer-sign -Wdeclaration-after-statement -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O4 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -Ilibdvdread4 -I.  -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/  -I/usr/include/SDL  -D_REENTRANT -pthread -I/usr/include/kde/artsc -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include   -D_REENTRANT   -I/usr/include/cdda -I/usr/include/freetype2   -I/usr/include/dirac   -I/usr/include/schroedinger-1.0 -I/usr/include/liboil-0.3     -c -o h263dec.o h263dec.c
h263dec.c: In function 'ff_h263_decode_frame':
h263dec.c:612: error: 'ff_pixfmt_divx5' undeclared (first use in this function)
h263dec.c:612: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
h263dec.c:612: error: for each function it appears in.)
h263dec.c:614: error: 'ff_pixfmt_divx4' undeclared (first use in this function)
h263dec.c:616: error: 'ff_pixfmt_mpeg4' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [h263dec.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mplayer-vdpau-4753835/mplayer-vdpau/libavcodec'
make: *** [libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Fehler 2

[bdenoziere]

I had the same problem, in h263dec.c I wrapped the test from line 608 to 626 with the following #if and #endif :

#if CONFIG_MPEG4_VDPAU_DECODER
if (CONFIG_MPEG4_VDPAU_DECODER
&& ....
...
}
#endif

and the compilation completed...

/Benjamin

[Stephen Warren]

Sorry about that. When we originally created this patch-set, it was only for people who wanted MPEG-4 Part 2 support. Consequently, we didn't ensure the code compiled on older drivers without it.

You can either install the latest driver, which provides the required definitions, or we will soon be releasing a new patch at the following URL: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vd...789364.tar.bz2. However, that file isn't there yet; it could take anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days to appear.

[lgolebio]

Hi, I'm trying to play the lys-20031106.avi file. It doesn't work, like other MPEG-4 files.
I have the latest nvidia drivers (190.36 beta) and succesfully compiled the "mplayer-vdpau-4789364".

Hardware
-nvidia 8600M GT DDR3

Here is the output of mplayer:

[lukasz@xpsm1530 Desktop]$ /usr/local/bin/mplayer -vc ffodivxvdpau -vo vdpau lys-20031106.avi
MPlayer SVN-r29354-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf
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 lys-20031106.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [DIVX] 1920x1080 24bpp 25.000 fps 8290.9 kbps (1012.1 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: MEncoder 0.90rc5-3.2.2
Opening video filter: [expand w=0 h=-200 x=0]
Expand: 0 x -200, 0 ; -1, osd: 0, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [pp]
================================================== ========================
Forced video codec: ffodivxvdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Selected video codec: [ffodivxvdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4,DIVX-4/5 (VDPAU))
================================================== ========================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
[mpeg4_vdpau @ 0x8956060]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: MPEG-4 Part 2 VDPAU acceleration)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
[vdpau] query_format: Unsupported image_format 0
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
[mpeg4_vdpau @ 0x8956060]VDPAU decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
Error while decoding frame!

FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).


Exiting... (End of file)

SORRY, my fault, I didn't realize that my graphic card doesn't support vdpau MPEG-4 decoding. Sorry for bothering you.

[Pizzuco]

Hi Everyone,

for the OpenSuSE distros you can find nVidia Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (nVidia VDPAU) in the historic multimedia external (Open)SuSE repository:
http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/

in which, at the moment, you can find this pachage:
nvidia-vdpau-devel (190.36)

NOTE: when you want to find some packages on official (base + build service) and (!) external (packman, videolan, ...) repository you are suggested to look for in the "Webpin" serch site:
http://packages.opensuse-community.org

Hope that help. Have a nice day,

Carlo

[Stephen Warren]

I've set up a launchpad PPA for Ubuntu packages of libvdpau at: https://launchpad.net/~srwarren/+archive/ppa-libvdpau

[jyavenard]

Stephen, I submitted a libvdpau package to debian+ubuntu last month. It hasn't created much interest by the debian folks whom seem rather nvidia suspicious (to do with "free" license).
For Ubuntu, it will be in use for 9.10 and they have already made plan of using this package for the weekly mythtv build.

mplayer , mythtv and other vdpau related program are build agaist the libvdpau package in my repository : www.avenard.org/media

[Lost Dog]

Originally Posted by jyavenard

Stephen, I submitted a libvdpau package to debian+ubuntu last month. It hasn't created much interest by the debian folks whom seem rather nvidia suspicious (to do with "free" license).
For Ubuntu, it will be in use for 9.10 and they have already made plan of using this package for the weekly mythtv build.

mplayer , mythtv and other vdpau related program are build agaist the libvdpau package in my repository : www.avenard.org/media

I use Debian but sometimes the attitude annoys me...

You should try talking with Christian Marillat who works on the debian-multimedia repositories. He may be a bit more responsive.

[Stephen Warren]

FYI, I filed bugs in both Ubuntu and Debian re: the NVIDIA graphics driver package packaging the libvdpau components, and the need to split those into a separate package:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...80/+bug/432172
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547248