[MPlayer-users] can't play certain matroska files using vdpau

[Francesco Berni]

On 01/17/2012 11:52 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:43:10PM +0100, Francesco Berni wrote:
>> On 01/17/2012 11:37 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>> Francesco Berni <kurojishi <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> http://www.datafilehost.com/download-7e548e0f.html
>>>
>>>> [swscaler @ 0xdf5a40]using unscaled yuv420p10le -> yuv420p special converter
>>>
>>> There is currently no hardware (afaik, but it is true for Nvidia consumer
>>> products at least) that supports 10bit H264, and VDPAU does not support it at
>>> all (API).
>>>
>>> Sorry for not realizing earlier, and the crash is of course a bug (a known one)!
>>> (But the fix will not really help you, because it will not fix playback.)
>>>
>>> Carl Eugen
>>
>> so i'll have to wait until vdpau support that codec and there is nothing
>> to do?
> 
> Well, you can still try to fix the "awfully laggy" issue.
> For example you can save some CPU time by not making it do
> the 10 bit to 8 bit conversion, at least -vo gl can display
> 10-bit directly (and with NVidia it should even give correct output.
> Mesa will probably start working. With ATI... Well, usually they
> manage to fix their bugs "somewhen", too).
> Then if it is a multi-core CPU make sure you have configured
> -lavdopts threads.
> Then there's also -lavdopts skiploopfilter=nonref and similar.
> Might make sense to combine that one with a larger "threads" value
> even on single core CPU (a hackish way to even out CPU usage between
> ref and nonref frames).
> 
>> i'll watch that videos on my other machine with an ATI card, it's no
>> tragedy.
> 
> The graphics card shouldn't matter (actually as I hinted at above,
> ATI actually is worse for 10 bit, they can't even handle uncompressed).
> Of course if that PC also has a more powerful CPU that solve the
> problem of laggyness without additional options.
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thank you for the explanation, i'll try this on the first machine, but
it's a single core atom, it has his limits.

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Francesco Berni  -  kurojishi
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