[MPlayer-users] VDPAU stuttering when playing x264 encoded media

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Tom Evans <tevans.uk <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> When using mplayer SVN to playback x264 encoded media using vdpau,
>> video playback stutters unpredictably. Usually playing 5 minutes or so
>> of a file is sufficient to exhibit the bug. Disabling vdpau with vc=xv
>> resolves all the stuttering (but obviously, no more accelerated
>> playback).
>
> Does this happen with -vc ffh264vdpau -vo vdpau or -vc ffh264 -vo vdpau or both?
> With a specific sample or with every sample?
> Am I correct you are using FreeBSD? Which driver version and what kind of VDPAU
> hardware?
>
> Carl Eugen
>

I will test those two combinations now.

It happens with all x264 encoded files I have - I've not tested with
any non x264 AVC files.

I'm using FreeBSD 8, amd64. Nvidia driver is 195.22 and the graphics
card is a 8400GS, which is vdpau feature set B.

Cheers

Tom