[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vdpau

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

Hi,

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> I do not remember any issues it would have, except that some videos
> cause the computer to almost hang (it should recover after some time if
> you press q to exit MPlayer - at least in part that is an issue on the
> NVidia side).

I found a trick that works for me in that case:
- Shutdown the Xserver (through /etc/init.d/gdm stop), don't kill -9 it
- Wait a little for X to shutdown, then you can kill mplayer's pid, twice. 
Again, don't -9 it
- Once it's killed, you can rmmod nvidia and restart your Xserver, it will 
work as usual

Otherwise, this could really lock and the only solution would be to reboot 
the computer. Anyhow, I think the latest drivers (180.29) do recover 
nicely by now.

Regards,
Gwenole.