On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 01/31/2011 11:50 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> It doesn't tell me my computer is too slow, >> it just gives me a rather pixelated image. >> People look like there made of burlap. >> >> The output from mplayer has two things >> that look like error messages to me. >> >>> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared >>> object file: No such file or directory >>> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 >> >> and >> >>> [VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.0.051 ct: -0.030 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 >> >> I don't even know why it looks for VDPAU. >> I have a GeForce card. > > That depends on *which* GeForce card you have. vdpau will only help you > if you have a GeForce 6 series card or later *and* are running with the > nvidia driver. The more later, the more it can help you. If you are > using nouveau or nv, you can't benefit from vdpau support. Arrrg. I remembered that I didn't have nvidia, but I remembered the wrong name. I'm on my third video card. The first was a radeon. After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with an nvidia card because it had AGP and I could find it. Having cooked or otherwise damaged that one, I replaced it with a VisionTek Radeon HD 3650. Again was the AGP card I could find. I suspect that a Radeon wouldn't play well with a *nvidia.so . >> Presumably things would go badly if it found libvdpau_nvidia.so . >> >> Once upon a time, I knew what DRI failure meant, >> but I've forgotten and googling turns up questions but no answers. > > DRI = Direct Rendering Infrastructure. It is the main support for 3D > acceleration in X11 these days. In the video world, DRM is the Direct > Rendering Manager. Wikipedia is your friend. > >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log includes, among other things: >> >>> [ 86356.565] Dac detection success >>> [ 86356.565] (II) RADEON(0): Output: DVI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 >>> [ 86356.565] Unhandled monitor type 0 >>> [ 86356.565] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DVI-0 > > Whoa! This looks like you have a Radeon card of some sort. Radeon is > made by AMD these days (used to be ATI). GeForce is made by nVidia. Yup. As noted above, I remembered the wrong name. By the time I got around to posting a message, my brain was too scrambled to take the hint. >> from mplayer -V, the last lineis >> >>> vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not initialized.. > > Yeah, I get this message from both my laptop and my desktop. The former > has an ATI chipset, the latter an nVidia one. > > What is in your /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file? It should show the vo > options it will try and use. Mine uses: > > vo=xv,xvidix, I'm at work, so I don't know for sure, Somewhere I think a saw a statement that mplayer would use a built-in list. The list was not specified. > and I don't have those problems.... The man page for mplayer for video > output options. You can override by using the -vo command line option. > See what works best for you. > >> Any ideas? Thank you for your help and your patience. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
