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boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 113

Re: [solved] VDPAU doesn't work on 128mb vram

Also, once I fail to run a movie this way, I get errors running vainfo, which prior to smplayer crash runs just fine.

$ vainfo 
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
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
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

Do you still know how you could resolve the first symptom in order to get to:

$ vainfo 
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
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
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.32 (libva 1.0.15)
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems VDPAU backend for VA-API - 0.7.3
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD

I am currently struggling with this

Lockheed

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Registered: 2010-03-16

Posts: 1,550

Re: [solved] VDPAU doesn't work on 128mb vram

How much video ram do you have?

boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 113

Re: [solved] VDPAU doesn't work on 128mb vram

How much video ram do you have?

(Hopefully) relevant extracts from Xorg.log:

[    21.879] (**) NVIDIA(0): Use of NVIDIA internal AGP requested
[    21.879] (**) NVIDIA(0): Ignoring EDIDs
[    23.224] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Not probing EDID on CRT-1.
[    23.226] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8400 GS (G98) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[    23.226] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
[    23.257] (II) NVIDIA: Using 768.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory access.
[    23.331] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[    23.331] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nvidia
[    23.331] (--) RandR disabled

Lockheed

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Registered: 2010-03-16

Posts: 1,550

Re: [solved] VDPAU doesn't work on 128mb vram

Not sure if virtual memory qualifies as video memory. You need at least 256mb of vram to play with vdpau.

boomshalek

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 113

Re: [solved] VDPAU doesn't work on 128mb vram

Not sure if virtual memory qualifies as video memory. You need at least 256mb of vram to play with vdpau.

Yeah, but Video Memory says:

--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes

right?

+------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 3.302.17   Driver Version: 302.17         |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                     | Bus-Id        Disp.  | Volatile ECC SB / DB |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage         | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce 8400 GS          | 0000:01:00.0     N/A |       N/A        N/A |
| N/A   45C  N/A     N/A /  N/A |  32%   81MB /  255MB |     N/A      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Compute processes:                                               GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID  Process name                                     Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0            Not Supported                                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Last edited by boomshalek (2012-07-16 13:59:54)