[Xine-vdpau] 8400M G86M GPU really working with VDPAU?

[Artem Makhutov]

Hi,

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:47:25PM +0300, hifi25nl wrote:
> I have installed a linux system (sidux debian linux) from scratch to test 
> vdpau on my laptop with a 8400M graphic card with G86M gpu and 256 ram, 2 GB 
> memory, processor Intel Core Duo 1,8 GHz.
> What I have done:
> 1) Uninstalled completely libxine and related packages, uninstalled ffmpeg, 
> x264, vdr.
> 2) Installed x264, ffmpeg, libxine 1.2 with vdpau patch, vdr 1.77 with both 
> xineliboutput and vdr-xine plugins, mplayer all last development versions, 
> vdpau r262.
> 3) Disabled CPU frequency scaling and set xorg to no composite. Disabled all 
> unecessary services. 
> 4) Changed xine config (and also xineliboutput config) to frames 22 and tempted 
> various amount of video buffers (500, 900, 5000 as suggested on the vdr wiki). 
> Tried bob and temporal as deinterlacing method.
> 5) Tried last unstable nvidia driver and last stable. 
> 
> I have worked almost a week!
> 
> The results:
> 1) MPLAYER with file: most of time crash, completly unusable.
> 2) VDR from live HD satellite (Sky Italia) with xineliboutput: squares or 
> image stall every 1-2 seconds.
> 3) VDR from live HD satellite (Sky Italia) with vdr-xine: if I am lucky video 
> is present but not fluid, but most of times will not start with black image or 
> "flashing squares".
> 4) XINE with sample HD satellite .ts file: it seems working but some "comb 
> effects" on movements suggest problems in deinterlacing (with xine-lib < 1.2 
> image stalls every 1-2 seconds)
> 
> CPU use is about 50-60% or more in all cases!!!
> 
> Any suggestions?

Can you allocate more ram to your video card?

I have a 9600 (Chipset GPU) and had to allocate 512MB RAM to it. It did not worked with 256 MB ram only.

Regards, Artem