HOWTO: Nvidia Driver + VDPAU + Smplayer +Mplayer

[MisterM]

I'm trying to figure out how to configure smplayer to use the vdpau codecs by default instead of ffh264 now.

Putting the following options under Preferences > Advanced > Options for MPlayer did the trick for me:

-vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,

[rvm4000]

it seems to be a smplayer issue. it stores your file info in .config/smplayer. removing smplayer* in there should fix the problem. I'm trying to figure out how to configure smplayer to use the vdpau codecs by default instead of ffh264 now.

in any case, start playback with mplayer directly and specify the following should work everytime.
-vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau

I suggest to compile smplayer from svn. vdpau should work just by selecting "vdpau" as video driver in the preferences, no need to pass any parameters to mplayer.

(This is actually untested, I don't have a graphic card supported by vdpau...)

[KhaaL]

I suggest to compile smplayer from svn. vdpau should work just by selecting "vdpau" as video driver in the preferences, no need to pass any parameters to mplayer.

(This is actually untested, I don't have a graphic card supported by vdpau...)

I know this is the peak of lazyness, but is there any debs or ppas for smplayer with vdpau?

[MisterM]

I know this is the peak of lazyness, but is there any debs or ppas for smplayer with vdpau?

https://launchpad.net/~brandonsnider/+archive/ppa

[rvm4000]

I know this is the peak of lazyness, but is there any debs or ppas for smplayer with vdpau?

smplayer 0.6.8 has just been released:

https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/smplayer

With this version, you don't need to pass any option to mplayer, just select "vdpau" as video driver in preferences -> general -> video, smplayer will do it for you.

Note that none of the video filters will work when using vdpau.

[snargfish]

Does VLC have VDPAU yet?

[Arup]

Does VLC have VDPAU yet?

Nope, they are still working on it.

[frafu]

https://launchpad.net/~brandonsnider/+archive/ppa

In the meantime, he set up the nvidia-vdpau-team as PPA, that also contains files for karmic:

https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau

[KhaaL]

i think i'm doing something wrong. tried with brandon sniders ppa and also installed smplayer 0.6.8 and yet i cant find a vdpau option under options - preferences - video - output driver. i just installed nvidia-185-libvdpau and nvidia-185-libvdpau-dev with no luck. i have nvidia driver 185.18.04 installed.

[rvm4000]

You need to update mplayer too.

You can find a mplayer build compiled with vdpau support (only for intrepid and jaunty) in my ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/testing