[MPlayer-users] Video codec fall-back doesn't work with vdpau?

[Jonathan Isom]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson at cox.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> mplayer r34237
> Nvidia 8400GS
> libvdpau 0.4
> driver 285.05.09
>
> These three commands perfectly play the AVI at hand:
>  $ mplayer -noconfig all foo.avi
>  $ mplayer -noconfig all -vo xv -vc ffodivx foo.avi
>  $ mplayer -noconfig all -vo vdpau,xv -vc ffodivx foo.avi
>
> However, I'd like it to use h/w accel if possible, so following the man
> page, I put "search lists" for both -vo and -vc.
>
> But mplayer doesn't fallback from ffodivxvdpau to ffodivx.  Am I doing
> something wrong, or is there a known limitation/bug that I somehow haven't
> ferreted out with my awesome Google-fu?
Hi
If I recall correctly , an 8400gs does not support h/w for divx.
You can check the readme that comes with the nvidia driver.
mplayer is trying to use it regardless. May be a bug in mplayer
or the driver.

HTH

Jonathan

> Thanks,
> Ron
>
> $ mplayer -noconfig all -nolirc -nojoystick \
>    -vo vdpau,xv \
>    -vc ffodivxvdpau,ffodivx foo.avi
> MPlayer SVN-r34237-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
>
> Playing foo.avi.
> AVI file format detected.
> [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
> [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
> VIDEO:  [XVID]  512x384  16bpp  23.976 fps  907.8 kbps (110.8 kbyte/s)
> Clip info:
>  Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
> Load subtitles in ./
> ==========================================================================
> Forced video codec: ffodivxvdpau
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> [VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
> [vdpau] Failed creating VDPAU decoder: An invalid/unsupported
> VdpDecoderProfile value was supplied.
> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
> e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
> Selected video codec: [ffodivxvdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4,DIVX-4/5
> (VDPAU))
> ==========================================================================
> ==========================================================================
> Requested audio codec family [mpg123] (afm=mpg123) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 1 ch, floatle, 76.6 kbit/4.99% (ratio: 9580->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [ffmp3float] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 audio)
> ==========================================================================
> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or
> directory
> AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
> Starting playback...
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
> [mpeg4_vdpau @ 0xd5af80]decoding to PIX_FMT_NONE is not supported.
> Error while decoding frame!
>
> FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
>
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