[MPlayer-users] Problems with vdpau and some video filters (like screenshot)

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

rvm <rvm3000 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I don't have a graphic card supported by vdpau, so I can't test this
> myself, but many people has reported problems in the smplayer forum
> when using vdpau and the screenshot filter.
> 
> Here there's a bug report:
> http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1501

-vc ff*vdpau should disable all video filters / refuse to initialize if a video
filter was activated.
I'm not sure if this is even possible with the current infrastructure.

> Other people also report similar problems with other video filters,
> like pp or kerndeint.

Please tell them that -vo vdpau contains a very sophisticated de-interlacer (and
they should RTFM).

> Is this a limitation of the vdpau driver?

It is a limitation of -vo xvmc and -vo vdpau (with -vc ff*vdpau). Since MPlayer
never gets uncompressed video data, video filters cannot work.

Carl Eugen