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

[Ron Johnson]

On 10/25/2011 05:27 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson<at>  cox.net>  writes:
>
>> On 10/25/2011 03:49 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Because the codec is working fine, the errors are from the vo.
>>
>> But libvdpau is explicitly throwing a "Failed creating VDPAU *decoder*".
>
> Are you trying to explain to Reimar how -vc ff*vdpau works?
>

Definitely not.  I should have expressed my thoughts more clearly, 
especially on an inter-cultural list.

> Above error message is shown by -vo vdpau if the initialization of the decoding
> hardware fails, At that time, it is (by MPlayer design) too late to change the
> MPlayer decoder (that is working fine).

Thanks.

When you write "by MPlayer design", presumably that means that it would 
be scarily difficult to try a new codec if the VO fails?

Two enhancement requests:
1) VDPAU error messages indicate whether they come from VO or VC stage.

2) Die quickly with a specific return code in this situation, so that
    the user can script around the error.  Or is there some other mix
    of options that allows one to accomplish the same task?

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