[CentOS] Mplayer and VDPAU

Wed Jan 6 20:28:03 UTC 2010
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:06:39PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Joshua. I'll give that a try.

> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
> UCSF

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