XvMC on 6800 GS

[FatlXception]

I am unable to get XvMC to work on my new 6800 GS card, using either the 7676 or 8174 drivers. I've tried it with mythtv, mplayer, and xine. It appears that the XvMC library is explicitly excluding the NV42 chip that the 6800 GS is based on, based on the following results from mplayer:

$ XVMC_DEBUG=2 mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc /var/lib/mythtv/1210_20051207200000.mpg
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices (Family: 8, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2



Option tv: Unknown suboption normid
Warning unknown option tv at line 7
85 audio & 196 video codecs
Setting up LIRC support...
Playing /var/lib/mythtv/1210_20051207200000.mpg.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) TS file format detected.
DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1,
PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=2048)AUDIO A52(pid=2049) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 1
Opened TS demuxer, audio: 2000(pid 2049), video: 10000002(pid 2048)...POS=21432
VIDEO: MPEG2 1280x720 (aspect 3) 59.940 fps 18800.0 kbps (2350.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s
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)
================================================== ========================
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
vo_xvmc: X-Video extension 2.2
vo_xvmc: X-Video MotionCompensation Extension version 1.0
================================================== ========================
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12mc
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
vd_ffmpeg: XVMC accelerated codec
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg12mc] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (XvMC))
================================================== ========================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
AF_pre: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
vd_ffmpeg: XVMC accelerated MPEG2
trying pixfmt=0
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred csp: MPEG1/2 Motion Compensation and IDCT)
VDec: using MPEG1/2 Motion Compensation and IDCT as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xvmc] 1280x720 => 1280x720 MPEG1/2 Motion Compensation and IDCT [fs]
vo_xvmc: Port 270 grabed
vo_xvmc: Found matching surface with id=54434449 on 270 port at 0 adapter
NV-XVMC (ERROR): this library supports the following chips only:NV-XVMC (ERROR): NV17, 18, 25, 28, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 40, 41, 43 and 44FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
trying pixfmt=1
Only buffers allocated by vo_xvmc allowed
mplayer: vd_ffmpeg.c:970: mc_get_buffer: Assertion `0' failed.


MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: decode_video
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
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alsa-uninit: pcm closed

Is this supported, or expected to be supported? The NVIDIA driver README claims XvMC is supported on "GeForce4, GeForce FX and newer products", but this appears not to be the case.

[Spyke]

Sounds like a screwup to me, of course it should be supported.

[KenWoodland]

Curious about mplayer, so I downloaded that latest version and tried it.

Looks like I am in the same boat, except that the chipset I use is (6150/430).

If you look at the code for mplayer (vo_xvmc.c) you will note it gets a bad return from XvMCCreateContext(), this is what I had reported in a previous post for both xine and mythtv on my system.

Attached is my output from mplayer and xvinfo.

[wizdom]

I get the same on my newly purchased 6800GS. I think they're missing "NV42 A1", which is the architecture for this card (iirc).

Anybody reported this bug to NVIDIA?

Cheers.

[netllama]

Yes, this is a known bug that has been discussed in several other threads on nvnews. This bug should be resolved in the next driver release.

Thanks,
Lonni