RE: VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?
-----Original Message-----
> From: lee [mailto:lee@yun.yagibdah.de]
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:23 AM
>
> Apparently, mplayer is supposed to be able to use vdpau, and 'mplayer
> -vo help' lists it. But when telling it to use it, CPU load during
> playback isn't lower than with kaffeine: I doubt that mplayer does
> actually use vdpau --- or if it does, then why is the CPU load still
> high? How can I tell for sure if mplayer does use vdpau?
>
> > Don't know about the rest.
>
> Hm. Is mplayer eventually able to play HDTV with sound? I couldn't get
> it to work with the TV card at all because I couldn't find out what
> the format of the channels.conf it needs is and how to create one.
Mplayer most definitely supports VDPAU, I use it myself all the time. The
one in debian-multimedia, in the testing repository. You need to use a -vc
option as well as a -vo option. Put this in your ~/.mplayer/config:
vc=ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,
vo=vdpau
I also added these for DTS and AC3 passthrough via SPDIF (you may need to
change "default" to something else):
ao=alsa:device=default
ac=hwdts,hwac3,
I'm not at home right now, so I can't tell you what the exact output from
mplayer is when it's using VDPAU, but it does tell you in its output when
it's using it.
As for using mplayer with a TV tuner card, I tried it once about a year ago
to test out the card, before I set up MythTV. The channels.conf file can be
generated by the "scan" command from the dvb-apps package.
Hope this helps!
-- Kevin
Reply to: