On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 at 3:01pm, fred smith wrote
I've looked on the mplayer web site and it says you can use vdpau, but it doesn't say HOW. Would that be with something like "-vo vdpau" ??
I have the following in ~/.mplayer/config:
vo=vdpau vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,
It forces mplayer to try the vdpau accelerated codecs first and then, if none of them work, to select a non-vdpau one that does.
Whether or not that's the *best* way, I don't know, but it does work.