On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
I'm a vdpau user and can say it's works just fine here.
Did you compile the xine stack yourself? I find it's very picky, eg if I try to use a repository with a set of packages that allegedly support VDPAU, vdr-sxfe doesn't work at all, and there are also difficulties getting xine, mplayer and gstreamer to all coexist with ffmpeg.
I compile xine-lib-1.2 myself. I use mplayer-nogui (and have used mplayer2), but I don't use gstreamer, and don't bother installing ffmpeg since everything works fine without an external copy.
Wouldn't fit. The Microserver only takes low profile cards and the x16 slot is also the one nearest the side of the case so there's no room for a double height backplane or thick heatsink like this:
Sorry, I missed the low profile card requirement.
An 8400GS might fit, but I wouldn't expect its VDPAU capabilities to be up to much. I currently use 8200 onboard graphics with mplayer VDPAU and it's rather jerky as if it's dropping frames just on 720p (with the TV at 1280x720 so no scaling is required). But that could be mplayer struggling to sync 24fps to 60Hz.
I used 8400's before upgrading to GT220 & GT240. They worked ok but the best deinterlacer I could use on HD content was bob. I haven't used an 8200igp as you are but based on my experience with 8400, I would guess 8400 is the minimum requirement.