Comments on: [HOWTO] Workaround for a broken AVCHD playback with VDPAU on Karmic

By: acmelab68

acmelab68 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:38:40 +0000

@Vlad
Thanks for this contribution. Very helpful.
I’ve corrected my bug with “-vdpua” also.
If “deint=2″ doesn’t work for you on a GTX260, then there must be a bug, because I thought the audio de-sync was due to my low performance 8200 (but low energy consumption therefor).
I also use “deint=1″ option only. Would be nice to know if deint=2 is working flawlessly at least for anybody though.

Thanks again.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:20:18 +0000

thanks for this guide, was very useful to watch AVCHD captured from Canon HF S100 (NTSC)in their full beauty. A couple of comments:

- everything finally worked after I deleted my customized ~/.mplayer and /etc/mplayer/

- the ‘-vdpau:deint=2…’ in Step 6 should be read ‘-vo -vdpau:deint=2…’

- my system seems to be too slow with deint=2 or more (deint=1 works fine). This is strange since CPU load is close to 0, and GPU I have is GTX260 (mplayer-vdpau compiled using the latest 190.53 64bit (vdpau) driver). The symptom is that sound starts to tear in a minute or so and then gets disabled (-framedrop or deint=1 cure that).

- the hqscaling doesn’t work for values > 1 (man page says up to 9 is accepted)

By: acmelabs

acmelabs — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:18:19 +0000

@alan
thanks for your very kind feedback.
And Yes – if you call an Nvidia card >=8200 your own, you won’t need CoreAVC anymore. But you need to follow the steps described above to make AVCHD playback work on Karmic.

Regards,
Andreas

By: alan

alan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:19:34 +0000

Hello Andreas! Wanted to thank you – your site made my way of handling AVCHD in Linux, since i also own Canon HF100 being an editor) Thanks again!
Oh and one question — does tjis nVidia mplayer stuff eliminates necessity of famous coreavc-for-linux workaround? Because it seems that mentioned don’t work for Karmic.

By: cewan

cewan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:06:58 +0000

Ok, that is too bad
I guess I’ll stick with XBMC then…

By: acmelabs

acmelabs — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:39:19 +0000

@cewan
It’s actually a matter of xine, mplayer or whatever (e.g. vlc), because MMS relys on them.
So the question is, can mplayer and co. play rar files?
I must admit, I don’t know that. But I quick search with Google reveals a few hits. So, maybe it’s possible, but I haven’t verified it myself.

By: cewan

cewan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:17:55 +0000

Does MMS support playing from rar files?

By: acmelab68

acmelab68 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:10:28 +0000

@Wizzu
thanks a lot for the feedback. I’ve corrected the typos. Subversion is indeed needed for the checkout-patch-build.sh.

Thanks again.

Btw. I’ve forgot to mention, that the deint=1 and higher stuff makes the AVCHD footage looks much much better.

Regards
Andreas

By: Wizzu

Wizzu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:59:31 +0000

Two notes, just from reading the article:
1. As far as I can tell, the “install subversion” is not needed (since the download from the nvidia site is with wget, not subversion, unless checkout-patch-build.sh needs it)
2. A couple of typos, “qaulity” and “mpalyer”