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Wraul

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Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 7

Gnome-Mplayer VDPAU problem

Hi
First I want to thank everyone in this awesome community. I learn so much when using Arch.

I just got a Geforce 210, mainly to be able to use vdpau.
It appears to work fine in xbmc.

But when using gnome-mplayer I run into problems. I have selected vdpau as video output in the settings menu.
The movie plays and must be using vdpau as my cpu usage stays rather low.

The problems
• If I resize the window it shrinks the movie as expected. But when increasing the windows size the movie stays small and the remaining area is filled with black.
• If I go to fullscreen the movie becomes black but the sound keeps playing. It stays this way if I return from fullscreen.
• If I navigates the menu the parts of the menu that covers the movie stays behind after closing and wont go away.

Are these configuration issues or just plain bugs?
If it's a bug how would I go about reporting it, and to where?

Something else
I also have one thing I'm a little confused about, but not sure if it deserves its own thread.
When I upgraded the graphic card the text in Gnome began looking different, slightly thiner and maybe a little smaller. I think I like it better but I'm still curios to why this happened. I upgraded from a Geforce 7300 something (LE?), if it maters.
Does anyone know and care to explain?

coolbooks2

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Registered: 2009-02-12

Posts: 19

Re: Gnome-Mplayer VDPAU problem

I have the same problem with gnome-mplayer. However it only happens if you run with compositing disabled. Enabling composting stops the wierd gnome-mplayer problem however it also makes the video tear in fullscreen. This problem is only with gnome-mplayer and the mplayer-plugin. If you play a video in smplayer it goes to fullscreen and back just fine. Problem is probably upstream so a bug should be posted there.

I posted a bug on gnome-mplayer's bug tracker. It can be viewed here:

http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/ … ail?id=370

Last edited by coolbooks2 (2010-03-12 16:29:16)

Wraul

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Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 7

Re: Gnome-Mplayer VDPAU problem

Thank you for the reply.
I have added a comment to your bug report. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

No one have an idea about my font mystery?

Themaister

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From: Trondheim, Norway

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 652

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Re: Gnome-Mplayer VDPAU problem

This is probably a VDPAU problem, I have problems with every GUI frontend and VDPAU.

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Wraul

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Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 7

Re: Gnome-Mplayer VDPAU problem

Themaister, I'm not sure it's entirely VDPAUs fault. It appears to have something to do with how the video is embedded in the application window. When using standard Mplayer it appears to work, and XBMC also plays fine with VDPAU codecs in both fullscreen and window mode. Maybe these applications draws the video using some other method.

I have enabled compositing and now it works better. I can play in fullscreen and the menus don't stick to the movie anymore.
But instead I get rather bad tearing, both in Gnome-Mpalyer and standard Mplayer, that wasn't there with compositing disabled.
I guess it's a step in the right direction though.