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pankajmore

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Registered: 2010-07-06

Posts: 23

nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

seems lyk hd video on smplayer with nvidia vdpau is screwed up , anybody else who can please verify the same problem?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

Known bug. You need tons and tons of memory for it to work right. They've already fixed it at nvidia, so wait for the next driver release.

ZekeSulastin

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Registered: 2010-09-20

Posts: 266

Re: nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

I've never seen mplayer stabilize at 2.6 GiB of RAM used until this glitch

wonder

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Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=155966

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DStein

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From: Buffalo, NY USA

Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 60

Re: nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

When I bought my Asus G51Jx the GTS 360M in it, while not top of the food chain, was nevertheless within the current generation of Nvidia mobile GPUs.  It's ancient history at this point.  In that period of time I've had to disable compositing nearly the entire time and have barely seen the benefit of VDPAU at all.  And now my unit is likely the last thing on their driver developers' collective minds.  Kind of reminds me of ten years ago when I bought a new Nvidia card and went through the same thing only under Windows. [/bitchingandmoaning]

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

The 360M is a GT240, that's previous generation, so not old at all. If you don't see any benefit of VDPAU, you must not have configured things properly.

DStein

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From: Buffalo, NY USA

Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 60

Re: nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

The issue for a time was that VDPAU would crash x.  On the one hand Nvidia makes, in my opinion, an advanced and well made GPU and they probably put more resources into their Linux driver than any other company I can think of (that only puts out a closed source driver).  But on the other hand, this degree of frustration that goes back to the TNT2 just seems unnecessary.

And to be a little more on topic, the only way I've ever been able to get smooth VDPAU playback of 1080p h.264 encoded files is using mplayer.  I've tried several including my personal favorite, VLC, but only mplayer seems to interface properly with VDPAU so far.

manzdagratiano

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From: New Jersey, USA

Registered: 2010-10-08

Posts: 137

Re: nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

I always end up using -vo xv on mplayer when the going gets too touch for vdpau. 1080p videos play fine with vdpau if I don't fiddle with them, but if I forward/reverse the video or even resize it, then vdpau begins to give up. Totem has been able to play HD videos for me so far as well, though I have never bothered to test it so much as mplayer. I would really like it if I could use vdpau instead of xv exclusively. I have compiled a cutting-edge mplayer from svn from scratch with all kinds of support, but the problem still remains.

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Nepherte

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2008-09-09

Posts: 427

Re: nvida 260.19.12-1 vdpau performance regression?

vdpau still crashes X for me as well. Though I don't mplayer doesn't seem to be suffering from excessive memory usage. For now i'm also using xv.