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talnotag

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Registered: 2010-07-27

Posts: 13

VLC and hardware acceleration ?

Hello !

I have a problem with VLC and hardware acceleration. I have installed the VDPAU package, and enabled GPU in VLC preference. At this point, when I try to play a h264 video, VLC crashes with the following output :

m_el[mi_level] == NULL
arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
m_el[mi_level] == NULL
arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
libva: libva version 0.31.1
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
vlc: vdpau_driver.c:233: vdpau_do_Initialize: Assertion `vdp_status == VDP_STATUS_OK' failed.
Aborted

I don't know what to do to fix it. My GPU is Nvidia 8800GTX. I anyone can help me, thanks !

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: VLC and hardware acceleration ?

we have a bug opened on our tracker but i don't know what's the problem.
usually this happens when the card doesn't have vdpau support but yours is fine.

can you post the output of vainfo ?

my guess is that vlc doesn't wait enough for nvidia_drv_video to load

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talnotag

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Registered: 2010-07-27

Posts: 13

Re: VLC and hardware acceleration ?

Here is vainfo output, thank you :

[vince@areca ~]$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.31.1
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
vainfo: vdpau_driver.c:233: vdpau_do_Initialize: Assertion `vdp_status == VDP_STATUS_OK' failed.
Aborted
[vince@areca ~]$

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: VLC and hardware acceleration ?

ok, so is a libva problem. i guess you should report to them.

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