VDPAU in mplayer shows no CPU difference on 9600M GT

[UrbenLegend]

I have a HP dv5t laptop with a Nvidia 9600M GT. I have installed the 180.44 driver. In mplayer, I've switched to the vdpau video output driver, but the CPU is still hovering at around 35-40%, which is the same cpu usage as under xv. I've even tried switching to ffh264vdpau as the video codec, but that caused the video to not play at all. Mplayer complains that the video_out device is incompatible with this codec.

Is the 9600M GT supported by VDPAU at all?

[UrbenLegend]

This is the mplayer log that I get when I try to play a particular .mkv file

==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=448000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.
Starting playback...
[h264 @ 0x88ee620]Cannot parallelize deblocking type 1, decoding such frames in sequential order
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7778
[swscaler @ 0x899ace0]No accelerated colorspace conversion found.
[swscaler @ 0x899ace0]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb24 special converter
VO: [vdpau] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12 
[ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found!
ID_VIDEO_TRACK=1
ID_AUDIO_TRACK=0


           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

I read somewhere that if it says its using planar yv12, its not accelerated.

Hope this helps in solving my problem.

[Dragoran]

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123819

[cehoyos]

Originally Posted by UrbenLegend

Hope this helps in solving my problem.

No.

What would be useful is the complete, uncut output of
mplayer -v -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau yourfile

Please use latest svn, Carl Eugen

[Stephen Warren]

[Selected video codec: [ffh264]

That's why; MPlayer is still using SW decoding. Most likely, you simply didn't specify the correct -vo and -vc options to MPlayer. If you did, please follow the instructions in the problem reporting sticky.

[UrbenLegend]

Oh my! Using Carl's command I do get VDPAU acceleration! CPU usage is at an amazing 1-3%! I was using smplayer before to play back my HD movie, so smplayer must be calling mplayer wrong. I have tried switching to ffh264vdpau in smplayer using "View info and properties", but it refuses to playback anything.

Here is how smplayer is calling mplayer:

/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -vc ffh264vdpau -lavdopts threads=2 -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo vdpau -ao alsa -nokeepaspect -framedrop -dr -double -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 60817422 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/ben/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 0 -subpos 100 -volume 80 -cache 2000 -ss 20 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add pp -autoq 6 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 200 /media/Seagate FreeDesktop/Videos/Vexille (1080p).mkv

And here is the mplayer log:

/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -vc ffh264vdpau -lavdopts threads=2 -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo vdpau -ao alsa -nokeepaspect -framedrop -dr -double -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 60817422 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/ben/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 0 -subpos 100 -volume 80 -cache 2000 -ss 6 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add pp -autoq 6 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 200 /media/Seagate FreeDesktop/Videos/Vexille (1080p).mkv

MPlayer dev-SVN-r29116-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (i686)-Packman (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer TeamCan't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
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 /media/Seagate FreeDesktop/Videos/Vexille (1080p).mkv.

Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_VID_0_NAME=Vexille
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) "Vexille", -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_NAME=Español AC3 5.1
ID_AID_0_LANG=spa
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3) "Español AC3 5.1", -aid 0, -alang spa
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
ID_AID_1_NAME=Japonés DTS 5.1
ID_AID_1_LANG=jpn
[mkv] Track ID 3: audio (A_DTS) "Japonés DTS 5.1", -aid 1, -alang jpn
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_NAME=Español
ID_SID_0_LANG=spa
[mkv] Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) "Español", -sid 0, -slang spa
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
ID_SID_1_NAME=Inglés
ID_SID_1_LANG=eng
[mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS) "Inglés", -sid 1, -slang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [avc1]  1920x1080  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=/media/Seagate FreeDesktop/Videos/Vexille (1080p).mkv
ID_DEMUXER=mkv
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1920
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=1080
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7778
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_LENGTH=6588.17
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
Couldn't open video filter 'ass'.
ASS: cannot add video filter
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
Opening video filter: [pp]
[ass] Init
[ass] Updating font cache.
==========================================================================
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))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264vdpau
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=448000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: H.264 VDPAU acceleration)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
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.
[h264_vdpau @ 0x88ee620]get_buffer() failed (-1 0 0 (nil))
[h264_vdpau @ 0x88ee620]decode_slice_header error
[h264_vdpau @ 0x88ee620]no frame!
Error while decoding frame!
[h264_vdpau @ 0x88ee620]get_buffer() failed (-1 0 0 (nil))
[h264_vdpau @ 0x88ee620]decode_slice_header error
[h264_vdpau @ 0x88ee620]no frame!
Error while decoding frame!

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


Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF

Anyone find anything wrong?

[hl_]

You must remove the video filters. (pp, screenshot)

[UrbenLegend]

I have removed postprocessing, but I can't find an option to turn off screenshot. How do I make smplayer not use the option?

[adrianveidt]

blank out the path in the screenshot directory. make that field entirely blank.

[UrbenLegend]

You guys are officially AWESOME! It works perfectly now. I don't use screenshots anyways and I guess postprocessing is unnecessary now that we have GPU acceleration?

Main thing is that I have to switch to the ffh264vdpau codec everytime I launch the video. Minor annoyance really, but is there a way to make vdpau codecs default?

[Dragoran]

Originally Posted by UrbenLegend

You guys are officially AWESOME! It works perfectly now. I don't use screenshots anyways and I guess postprocessing is unnecessary now that we have GPU acceleration?

Main thing is that I have to switch to the ffh264vdpau codec everytime I launch the video. Minor annoyance really, but is there a way to make vdpau codecs default?

Create a ~/.mplayer/config file with this content:

vo=vdpau,xv,
vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,

Will use VDPAU if supported for the stream, else software.

[UrbenLegend]

Excellent! Everything works as it should now! Thank you all.