Tag Archive for 'mplayer' at Acmelabs' Blog

mplayer-vdpau: The “Error 23″ issue

January 6th, 2009 by acmelab68

There are some .mkv files, that refuses to play with the latest mplayer-vdpau (nvidia-180.18 + mplayer-vdpau-3263604. The error code, they return is: Error 23 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:724 Some recommend at the nvidia forum to change line 94 in libvo/vo_vdpau, and set up the value below up to anything higher:

Mplayer-vdpau: Matroska (.mkv) and AVCHD (.mts) now both working

December 25th, 2008 by acmelab68

Nvidia released on 22th its new vdpau driver version 180.18, but not the corresponding mplayer-vdpau. One day later they also released a new mplayer-vdpau. The version 3263604. I’ve reported a more or less working TwinView for vdpau version 180.18 on a x86_64 Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), but today the situation look a bit different:

vdpau 180.18 now supports TwinView – sometimes

December 23rd, 2008 by acmelab68

Nvidia released on 22th December a new vdpau driver, the version 180.18. Here’s the release note: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1882835. To be honest, I didn’t suck out much of it. So I’ve tested the x86_64 version against my three notorious candidates, like I did before for [1,2,3,4,5]. Matroska (.mkv) still stutter (jerky playback) Sync_to_VBlank is still being ignored [...]

Ion – a tiny Media PC from Nvidia

December 18th, 2008 by acmelab68

First of all, the new thing about it isn’t its size, but its ability to work together with on Atom CPU from Intel. That’s not usual, since there’s been only one chip-set available so far, which is design to work with on Atom CPU, and that’s Intel’s 945GM. Now the GeForce 9400M chip-set will be [...]