Call for testers - mplayer svn port

[Tobias Lott]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:08:15 +0300
Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:34:13PM +0100, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 January 2010 21:55:21 Yuri Pankov wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 12:19:51PM +0100, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > > > On Friday 08 January 2010 22:48:50 Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:40, Stefan Ehmann
> > > > > <shoesoft at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > > > > VDPAU support would also be nice.
> > > > >
> > > > > Noted, thanks. I have overlooked that one. I'll include it
> > > > > with the next iteration in a few days.
> > > >
> > > > Meanwhile, I tried getting it to work myself. If I move the
> > > > vdpau-headers from /usr/local/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0
> > > > (installed by x11/nvidia-driver) to /usr/local/include/vdpau,
> > > > mplayer is compiled with vdpau support.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the hint, makes a difference here. Should we ask
> > > maintainer of nvidia-driver to install those headers with the
> > > port?
> > (CCed the nvidia-driver maintainer)
> > I think modifying the nvidia-driver port to install the header
> > files into a different location would be preferable. But I haven't
> > really looked at the port, maybe there's a reason for them to be in
> > doc.
> > 
> > > > It's working nicely. Having to specify -vc manually is
> > > > cumbersome, but that's not related to the port :)
> > > 
> > > I guess you mean -vo here. You could specify it in
> > > ~/.mplayer/config, BTW.
> > Unfortunately, no. In order to get hardware acceleration, you also
> > need to specify -vc depending on the type of video. From the man
> > page:
> > 
> > vdpau (with −vc ffmpeg12vdpau, ffwmv3vdpau, ffvc1vdpau or
> > ffh264vdpau)
> 
> You still can specify it as:
> vo=vdpau,
> vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,
> 
> commas at the end to fallback to standard codecs if necessary.
> My 8600GT doesn't seem to support ffodivxvdpau, though.
> 

Works fine so far!
I can confirm ffodivxvdpau not working with a 8600GT.

Thanks for the work on getting this done

Tobias