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[piotrq__]

Enable the Composite extension, to solve that gray-box issue - I've seen somebody posting about this somewhere, so this is probably a small bug, or sth.
You should be able to use vdpau vo and HW accelerated ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau codecs from there on. Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and change:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

To:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[Watto]

Originally Posted by piotrq__

Make sure you've checkmarked "use verbose debugging" in gnome-mplayer prefs (if it's your player) and then copy the playback-related messages from ~/.xsession-errors file.

I looked in gmplayer pref and I didn't see that...
So I added "msglevel=9" in "~/.mplayer/config" but all I get in .xsession-errors appears to be a few "!!! [Hook] hook(): title not found" when I use the vdpau codecs.

Enabling the Composite extension fixed the vdpau output but the codecs still won't work...

[piotrq__]

Hmmm... Dwonload the youtube vid you're trying to play, open a terminal and type mplayer -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau, -v /path/to/your_video > ~/mplayerlog.txt

Go to you home dir and throw mplayerlog.txt somewhere :-)

And I nearly forgot put this:
export VDPAU_NVIDIA_9cfhn89fhn=38047802
Into your ~/.bash_profile to make sure that the GPU will be able to accelerate more than one video stream at once!

[Watto]

It works when I do that. Outside of this embedded method vdpau works fine...

[piotrq__]

Hmmm... What player are you using? Is it gnome-mplayer, or something different? Mind posting ~/.mplayer/config here too?

[Watto]

I am using the mozilla-mplayer plugin in Ubuntu 9.10 64bit and jyavenard's mplayer package. I don't think it uses gmplayer, the script seems to have it's own gui controls.
This is my current config:

vo=vdpau,
vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,
ao=pulse
demuxer=lavf
cache=8192
msglevel=9

It only works when I comment out the vc line.

[Watto]

There is also a "~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf" file that the script uses.
This is the contents:

vo=vdpau
ao=pulse
cachesize=512
cache-percent=5
dload-dir=/home/watto/Desktop
showtime=1
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=1
enable-gmp=1
enable-dvx=0
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-midi=0
enable-pls=1
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
nomediacache=0
nopauseonhide=0
rtsp-use-tcp=0
rtsp-use-http=0
msglevel=9

[piotrq__]

Dunno how to help you with this one... I'm using gnome-mplayer which shares it's config with mplayer and works nicely. Why don't you install it too? :-)

[Watto]

Ok I installed it but how do you use it with the embedded player? It still doesn't work...

[piotrq__]

Make sure the plugin is recognized by Firefox. Type aboutlugins in the address bar and see if a line: mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8 is there and you've got all the supported video types listed below.

If it's there then you should be good to go.

Open your ~/.mplayer/config and put this in it:

[gnome-mplayer]
vo=vdpau
ao=pulse
msglevel=all=5
vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpa u,

And finally run gnome-mplayer open the prefs panel and tick every but the last option on the "Plugin" page.

[Watto]

Ok I had to uninstall the mozilla-mplayer package and install gecko-mediaplayer. Much nicer!
However it still doesn't work...
I checked verbose debugging and I found TONS of these messages in .xsession-errors:

ERROR: [h264_vdpau @ 0xc3dc00]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
ERROR: [h264_vdpau @ 0xc3dc00]decode_slice_header error
ERROR: [h264_vdpau @ 0xc3dc00]no frame!
ERROR: Error while decoding frame!

Not sure what order they go in...

[Watto]

Figured out it was the "Deinterlace Video" option under Mplayer. I guess the option is not for the vdpau deinterlacer...
Works great now!