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XBMC VDPAU on T61? - Noodle - 2011-05-09 Hi Forum, I have a old thinkpad T61 with ubuntu installed on it (latest 11.04), and I have latest XBMC release installed as well. I have nvidia driver working fine, current version 270.29-0ubuntu1, I also set XBMC to use VDPAU, but XBMC still use ff-h264 to decode x264 movie. Is there any setting issue? Or does XBMC support VDPAU on T61? Thanks Noodle - cowfodder - 2011-05-09 VDPAU requires a card based on the G9x series cores. - pumkinut - 2011-05-09 According to the mythtv wiki and nvnews.net, the quadro chipset in the T61 (Quadro NVS 140M) should work with the VDPAU extensions. Have you set up an Xorg.conf file? Degug log maybe. Could be that XBMC isn't playing nice with it as well. - cowfodder - 2011-05-09 Wait, x264 not h264? Is it SD or HD? *edit* The Wiki Wrote:<vdpauscaling>true</vdpauscaling> <!-- scales with vdpau instead of opengl and turns on its HQ scaler when available, enabling this might slow down rendering and cause framedrops especially on ion systems, this setting requires a vdpau feature set C gpu--> If it's SD content all is working as it should. - pumkinut - 2011-05-09 For scaling yes, but for decoding if the content is h.264 encoded, vdpau should kick in for decoding and ff-h264 should be bypassed. BTW, x264 is an h.264 AVC encoder, not a separate codec. - Noodle - 2011-05-09 I will check xorg.conf and try to get debug log once I get chance. Thanks for taking time to look at this, BTW. Noodle pumkinut Wrote:According to the mythtv wiki and nvnews.net, the quadro chipset in the T61 (Quadro NVS 140M) should work with the VDPAU extensions. Have you set up an Xorg.conf file? Degug log maybe. Could be that XBMC isn't playing nice with it as well. - Noodle - 2011-05-09 Check xorg.conf, nothing special. in xbmc.log I found: Code: 16:38:11 T:139816150755072 M:1493622784 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Creating VDPAU(1920x816, 28) I'm thinking is it possible because there's no enough RAM allocated to video card? I have 2G RAM total, and I cannot found video RAM configuration in BIOS. Thanks Noodle - pumkinut - 2011-05-09 VRAM could be an issue, have you also made sure that any compositing is disabled in your Xorg.conf file? - darkscout - 2011-05-09 Get a bigger swap file. When my swap ate itself and wasn't working I was getting the same errors. I just made a 5GB file on my hard drive and did swapon /swapfile. Fixed all the problems. - Noodle - 2011-05-10 Thanks, I will try this trick, were you fix it on T61? darkscout Wrote:Get a bigger swap file. When my swap ate itself and wasn't working I was getting the same errors. I just made a 5GB file on my hard drive and did swapon /swapfile. Fixed all the problems. - Noodle - 2011-05-10 Sorry, but increase swap doesn't help. I create a 5G file and use it as swap (I have 4G partition already). So total 9G swap still not using VDPAU. darkscout Wrote:Get a bigger swap file. When my swap ate itself and wasn't working I was getting the same errors. I just made a 5GB file on my hard drive and did swapon /swapfile. Fixed all the problems. - Noodle - 2011-05-10 Here is my xorg.conf file, nothing disabled. This laptop connect to a Dell 20" monitor, so should be two "Monitor', but I see only one. Could this be an issue? Code: # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings pumkinut Wrote:VRAM could be an issue, have you also made sure that any compositing is disabled in your Xorg.conf file? RE: XBMC VDPAU on T61? - Noodle - 2012-03-28 Any news on this? XBMC Eden still not using VDPAU. RE: XBMC VDPAU on T61? - FernetMenta - 2012-03-28 I had a brief look in the spec of a T61. 128MB video ram is not enough to get this working. RE: XBMC VDPAU on T61? - pumkinut - 2012-03-28 Yikes! 128MB of VRAM, that's way low. |