Hi,

I've got an Asus ION5T system board with integral Nvidia GT218 GPU, the system is a dual 1.8GHz ATOM with 4GB RAM.

OS version is Fedora 15 i386 edition.

lspci comes up with this:

According the manfucaturers specs this board should have no problem playing either Blue Ray or HD encoded videos at either 720p or 1080p.


Whenever I try and play a video through Mplayer the cpu goes up to almost 100% and there is quite a bit of delay between frames. Additionally the sound is not in sync with the video either.


I have the proper NVidia drivers downloaded from yum:

And in the NVidia setup utility (NVidia X Server Settings) the OpenGL settings are set to:

Allow flipping and the slider is on High Quality.

The PowerMizer is set to Adaptive (which maybe where the problem lies) but one would think that the system should 'adapt' to the playback requirements.


I don't have much Nvidia experience so I'm really not sure where the problem lies. I have thought through my research that it could be due to Mplayer not using HWacceleration. When I tried to use:

I just get a black screen with no output.

To be honest I would prefer to use Xine as this has been my choice for vids in Linux over the years but it doesn't work with Mp4 files claiming:

which is disturbing considering that everything was working before a: . Now nothing of avi or mp4 works.


Can anyone help me fix my Xine issue and HD playback issue???


Many thanks!

The Atom CPU hasnt quite got enough power to decode HD video, which is why you are having these problems.

I've never run VDPAU on fedora, but from a bit of a search around it looks like there is a VDPAU package. Installing that would be a good start to using VDPAU.

Thanks for the reponse!

I managed to 'unload' the cpu by doing this:

from there I ran:

thanks to this site: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/use-m...-hardware.html

which is actually for Ubuntu 10.10 but hey if it works right!

Now my cpu load has dropped to round 20-40% on both cores during playback and the GPU is taking care of rest as smooth playback is now occuring.

I'm really concerned about Xine not working though and am sure it's a bug or at least a code change which has prompted the errors defined above.

What's the best course of action to take on that? As in, I couldn't find a Fedora multimedia mailing list or a package developer mailing list that I could get further help from.....

Any suggestions?

IIRC xine used to need compling to get VDPAU going. I have no idea if that is still true. Probably the easiest place to get a fast answer would be from IRC. There used to be axine-vdpau channel, but its gone now-

http://www.xine-project.org/home

You might find this handy as well-

http://lists.kafic.ba/mailman/listinfo/xine-vdpau

Thanks for that!!

It's actually not the vdpau support which is worrying me but more so the errors while playing Mp4 encoded files.

As per my initial post I keep getting these errors:

Ever since the update of my system!

The files used to play fine before and they still work using mplayer but I need to get the Xine support back as Xine just tends to work better for me then mplayer - call it preference if you would

Just a quick update to the mplayer H/W acceleration:

This is part of the .mplayer/config file which basically is a little bit un-automated but does the job.

"Turn-Off screensaver + Turn-On Acceleration"

h264 encoded videos can be optionally turned on so when running videos directly off the GUI things actually work plainly and simply.

P.s. had to do nothing of this with working Xine