LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] VLC fails to replay video using NVIDIA GeForce G 105M, nouveau and mesa-vdpau

Hello everyone,

I am using Arch Linux and am trying to get VLC to use hardware accelerated decoding. I have an old NVIDIA GeForce G 105M and have installed the open source nouveau drivers, so I have installed the mesa-vdpau package.

Keep in mind that I wish this to work with the open source drivers and that I'd rather not use hardware decoding if it means installing the proprietary driver.

When I try to run mp4 videos using VLC, I get the following messages:

Quote:

[00007f6cc4c53ee8] avcodec decoder: Using G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0 for hardware decoding.
[00007f6ca0001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies.

I would think that this is either due to the fact that my card does not support decoding MPEG4 with mesa-vdpau or that I simply do not have the decoder capabilities. However, mpv seems to work just fine with hardware decoding, so I can't seem to identify the problem.

This is the output of my vdpauinfo:

Quote:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0

Video surface:

name width height types
-------------------------------------------
420 8192 8192 NV12 YV12
422 8192 8192 UYVY YUYV
444 8192 8192 Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8

Decoder capabilities:

name level macbs width height
----------------------------------------------------
MPEG1 0 16384 2048 2048
MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 16384 2048 2048
MPEG2_MAIN 3 16384 2048 2048
H264_BASELINE 41 16384 2048 2048
H264_MAIN 41 16384 2048 2048
H264_HIGH 41 16384 2048 2048
VC1_SIMPLE 1 16384 2048 2048
VC1_MAIN 2 16384 2048 2048
VC1_ADVANCED 4 16384 2048 2048
MPEG4_PART2_SP --- not supported ---
MPEG4_PART2_ASP --- not supported ---
DIVX4_QMOBILE --- not supported ---
DIVX4_MOBILE --- not supported ---
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER --- not supported ---
DIVX4_HD_1080P --- not supported ---
DIVX5_QMOBILE --- not supported ---
DIVX5_MOBILE --- not supported ---
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER --- not supported ---
DIVX5_HD_1080P --- not supported ---
H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE --- not supported ---
H264_EXTENDED --- not supported ---
H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH --- not supported ---
H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH --- not supported ---
H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_10 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_STILL --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_12 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444 --- not supported ---

Output surface:

name width height nat types
----------------------------------------------------
B8G8R8A8 8192 8192 y NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A4I4 I4A4 A8I8 I8A8
R8G8B8A8 8192 8192 y NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A4I4 I4A4 A8I8 I8A8
R10G10B10A2 8192 8192 y NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A4I4 I4A4 A8I8 I8A8
B10G10R10A2 8192 8192 y NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A4I4 I4A4 A8I8 I8A8

Bitmap surface:

name width height
------------------------------
B8G8R8A8 8192 8192
R8G8B8A8 8192 8192
R10G10B10A2 8192 8192
B10G10R10A2 8192 8192
A8 8192 8192

Video mixer:

feature name sup
------------------------------------
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL y
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL -
INVERSE_TELECINE -
NOISE_REDUCTION y
SHARPNESS y
LUMA_KEY y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L1 y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L2 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L3 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L4 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L5 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L6 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L7 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L8 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L9 -

parameter name sup min max
-----------------------------------------------------
VIDEO_SURFACE_WIDTH y 48 2048
VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT y 48 2048
CHROMA_TYPE y
LAYERS y 0 4

attribute name sup min max
-----------------------------------------------------
BACKGROUND_COLOR y
CSC_MATRIX y
NOISE_REDUCTION_LEVEL y 0.00 1.00
SHARPNESS_LEVEL y -1.00 1.00
LUMA_KEY_MIN_LUMA y
LUMA_KEY_MAX_LUMA y

Any help will very much be appreciated.

EDIT: After doing some more reading, I found this out on the Arch Wiki's page on the NVIDIA proprietary drivers:

Quote:

Pure Video HD

At least a video card with second generation PureVideo HD is required for hardware video acceleration using VDPAU.

It so happens that this graphics card does not have this technology. Also, mpv seems to often break when stopping or starting video replay, effectively choking the whole system, so it may be related to this.