MPlayer and XBMC built with NVIDIA VDPAU

[Hansvon]

If you want to use XBMC 9.11 (Camelot) and MPlayer, I suggest to use RPM Fusion. VDPAU support is now mainline...

My repository provides pre-beta XBMC Dharma packages (xbmc-dharma) and recent mplayer packages with bluray support (through libbluray and libaacs). These packages depend on RPM Fusion.
xbmc-dharma is also compiled with vdpau and vaapi support. vaapi is supposed to be compatible with Nvidia (through vdpau, install vdpau-video), ATI (through xvba, install xvba-video) and Intel (directly). For me (NVidia), it doesn't work, xbmc instantly crash. Anyway, you can try. Maybe it's useful for someone. You can maybe find informations here: http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/
For NVidia and ATI, it can only work with the closed source driver. For Intel, I have no idea.
libva, vdpau-video source packages were copied from http://rpms.kwizart.net/ or http://www.happyassassin.net/video-experimental/ (I forgot) and recompiled by me. Thanks to them!

One last thing, RTMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Ti...aging_Protocol) support was removed from XBMC after 9.11. If you want to watch videos over this protocol (usually flash), you have to install librtmp (provided in my repo).

Repository URL: http://hansvon.homelinux.org/fedora/
If you want to install it in yum, copy http://hansvon.homelinux.org/hansvon.repo to your /etc/yum.repos.d/


Some links:

• VDPAU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU
• VAAPI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API
• XBMC: http://xbmc.org/
• MPlayer: http://www.mplayerhq.hu
• SMPlayer: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/
• RPM Fusion: http://rpmfusion.org
• scotth XBMC builds: http://sourcemirrors.org/scotth/fedora/

[druh]

Hi,

i've tested it with i586. It works perfectly. I've tested it with ION and NV Quatro. Updates are welcome ;-) Thanx a lot.

Jacek.

[Hansvon]

Hi,
You're welcome.
I have updated the rpm yesterday. I will update maybe every two weeks or so.
By the way, you can use these rpms without a nvidia card. It will work as long as you don't try to use vdpau...

[denka]

Thank you, tried i386 Fedora 10 om my brother's computer.

[Hansvon]

RPMs were updated yesterday.
Main change except svn update is that SRPMS are based now on libvdpau-devel, instead of xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel. xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel required the full driver installation...
It doesn't change anything for the rpms. It's only easier if you want to build the srpm.

[rarbox]

Works great.

A repository will be awesome.

[denka]

Yes, a repository would be great. Thanks again for building these packages.

[Hansvon]

I've read here [1] that XBMC will be available in RPM Fusion. Since Fedora now packages libvdpau, I hope RPM Fusion will enable vdpau in XBMC and mplayer (if they don't, that would be very very strange...). So no repository, sorry.

[1] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851

[Hansvon]

Packages have just been updated to today's svn versions (20091019). Three comments:

• XBMC doesn't compile anymore on Fedora 10 (libtool issue in libass, no time to debug...). Please use older versions...
• Packages are now available for Fedora 12 (rawhide), for people already using it, like me...
• A repo is now available (it's easier to set up than I thought....): copy http://hansvon.homelinux.org/hansvon.repo to your /etc/yum.repos.d/

[rarbox]

Added your repo.

Thanks!

[Hansvon]

XBMC was again updated because 20091019 version was not built with pulseaudio support (sorry). Also, now, F12-rawhide version depends on RPMFusion's ffmpeg since it is now compatible with vdpau. (Right now, F12-rawhide has dependencies trouble because of ffmpeg update)

[natros]

I'm trying your mplayer with vdpau support with the nvidia drivers in this post http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=231340 but i'm having this problem:

$ mplayer -vo vdpau big_buck_bunny_1080p_h264.mov
MPlayer SVN-r29780-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing big_buck_bunny_1080p_h264.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x327b6c0]max_analyze_duration reached
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 2
VIDEO: [H264] 1920x1080 24bpp 24.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
major_brand: qt
minor_version: 537199360
compatible_brands: qt
[vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
================================================== ========================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 1.4 (01.4) of 596.5 (09:56.4) 1.3%

[Hansvon]

You need to specify -vc ffh264vdpau.
You can specify all vdpau codecs, like this: -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,
Note the comma at the end, this will make MPlayer look for another codec if the first four don't work on the file you're trying to play.

If you don't specify -vc, it seems MPlayer is trying to access libvdpau (it's not installed on your machine). On my PC, if libvdpau is installed and I don't specify -vc blabla, MPlayer doesn't automatically use ffh264vdpau: it uses ffh264, which is not accelerated.

[Hansvon]

I've removed mplayer on rawhide (moved to the old directories if someone needs it) because RPM Fusion now has this package with VDPAU enabled. I would suggest for people running rawhide now (fc12) to install their version.

[beertje]

Thanks for your efforts, this is really great. One big but though: your latest build is build without gui support, so gmplayer is useless:

$ gmplayer
MPlayer SVN-r29780-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
MPlayer was compiled WITHOUT GUI support.