VDPAU – The NVIDIA 180.06 beta driver for Linux – or how to play back AVCHD with GPU acceleration

November 24th, 2008 by acmelab68
Test
Now it’s time to test your installation. You can download some samples, like proposed in this README:

  • H.264:

    wget http://samples.mplayerhq.hu.nyud.net/V-codecs/h264/PAFF/Grey.ts
    ./mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau Grey.ts
    wget http://samples.mplayerhq.hu.nyud.net/V-codecs/h264/nature_704x576_25Hz_1500kbits.h264
    ./mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau nature_704x576_25Hz_1500kbits.h264

  • AVCHD (Canon HF100):

    wget http://mymediasystem.net/canon-hf100-17mbit-sample.mts
    ./mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau -fps 50 canon-hf100-17mbit-sample.mts

  • AVCHD (Panasonic HDC-SD100):

    wget http://mymediasystem.net/panasonic-hdc-sd100-sample.mts
    ./mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau -demuxer lavf panasonic-hdc-sd100-sample.mts

  • MPEG:

    wget http://inventaaustralia.zftp.com.nyud.net/videos/MPEGIO3MBPS30sec.mpg
    ./mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau MPEGIO3MBPS30sec.mpg

  • WMV3:

    wget http://download.microsoft.com.nyud.net/download/0/9/d/09d051c4-decc-4d39-9c57-f520187213a1/Amazing_Caves_720.exe
    unzip x Amazing_Caves_720.exe
    ./mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffwmv3vdpau Amazing_Caves_720.wmv

  • VC-1:

    wget http://samples.mplayerhq.hu.nyud.net/V-codecs/WVC1/FlightSimX_720p60_51_15Mbps.wmv
    ./mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffvc1vdpau FlightSimX_720p60_51_15Mbps.wmv

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15 Responses to “VDPAU – The NVIDIA 180.06 beta driver for Linux – or how to play back AVCHD with GPU acceleration”

  1. Anders Rune Jensen

    “I’ve been waiting for this moment a very long time”

    I’ve been waiting for your review of this ever since nvidia announced it :)

    I havn’t found the list of supported GPU’s before, but just as I suspected it doesn’t look like my onboard nvidia 6400 (I think) is supported. Would be great to find out which onboard cards uses the least amount of power. At least one that can power down the GPU when it is not being used :) I guess would probably would have to go for one of those 9×00 cards to get VC-1 support?

    Comment on Nov 24th, 2008 at 4:06 pm   
  2. Anders Rune Jensen

    What graphics card did you use for testing? Maybe I skimmed to quickly but couldn’t find it ;-)

    Comment on Nov 24th, 2008 at 4:32 pm   
  3. acmelab68

    @Anders Rune Jensen
    Hi Anders :-)
    My card is a 8500GT, it’s a quite cheap model, and is being cooled passively. It’s not onboard. In the living-room I’m facing the same situation like you, since there’s an onboard 7025, which wouldn’t work.

    Comment on Nov 24th, 2008 at 4:44 pm   
  4. Anders Rune Jensen

    I just searched the local hardware dealer and indeed the Geforce 9400 cards are really cheap (~50 euro) and passively cooled, sadly its pci express. It seems like one of the biggest problems except for the stability is the tearing issue. How bad is it? Is it bad enough to make it completely unusable?

    Comment on Nov 24th, 2008 at 5:04 pm   
  5. acmelab68

    @Anders Rune Jensen
    The whole thing is very very unasable. It’s realy only a feasibility test, nothing else. Tearing is one of many very evil bugs (System freezes and other)
    NVIDIA just wanted to piss into Intel’s and ATI’s garden.
    It’s really not worth to buy any GFX card righ now, only because of the release of 180.06. I thing we’ve got plenty of time.

    Btw: how did you do this thing with your avatar picture?

    Comment on Nov 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm   
  6. Anders Rune Jensen

    I used http://www.gravatar.com/. It’s used a lot of places now. I was wondering what wordpress plugin you where using to get this? :)

    Comment on Nov 24th, 2008 at 5:34 pm   
  7. acmelab68

    @Anders Rune Jensen
    Actually I’m using WP out of the box. Must be a built in feature then

    Comment on Nov 25th, 2008 at 6:48 am   
  8. NVIDIA VDPAU 180.11 test against .mts (AVCHD) and .mkv (Matroska/h264) playback - Acmelabs’ Blog

    [...] first beta driver, the 180.06 on the 14th of November. I’ve tested these new Beta driver here, and found a few bugs. I skipped the test of the driver 180.08 published 4 days later, but tested [...]

    Comment on Dec 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pm   
  9. NVIDIA’s VDPAU version 180.11 hardware acceleration for HD content (H.264) with major improvements. - Acmelabs’ Blog

    [...] the intructions here if you like to install NVIDIA’s Beta driver on a Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid [...]

    Comment on Dec 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pm   
  10. xine-vdpau - the first contact | Acmelabs' Blog

    [...] used this Nvidia vdpau driver. Version >=180.16 is the minimum version you need. Read here how to install this new Beta driver on a Unbuntu [...]

    Comment on Dec 22nd, 2008 at 12:39 am   
  11. Kyle Brandt

    I had to do more to get the driver uninstalled, if you get an error after installation in dmesg about an API mismatch look here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=125147&page=2

    Comment on Dec 30th, 2008 at 3:37 pm   
  12. acmelab68

    @Kyle Brandt
    Thanks a lot for the feedback!

    Comment on Dec 30th, 2008 at 5:14 pm   
  13. VDPAU bug report

    [...] None of the tests listed here play properly: http://blog.mymediasystem.net/avchd/…cceleration/3/ [...]

    Comment on Apr 15th, 2009 at 1:27 pm   
  14. nande

    really good, but it would have saved me some work if you put the suported list in the begining. damm nvidia¬¬

    Comment on May 11th, 2009 at 1:47 am   
  15. acmelab68

    @nande
    Hold it! This is very much outdated. All Nvidia cards beginning with 8xxx suppose to work now.
    Please consider the posting date, and please look here at this Blog for a recent VDPAU article.
    The current nvidia drivers do support VDPAU out of the box, and a recent mplayer checkout doesn’t need special treatment anymore.

    Comment on May 11th, 2009 at 6:31 am   

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