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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:53:54
Message-Id: 58965d8a1003281352n3c1580b8k118debf0922cc0b6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?) by 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
1 On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 03/26/10 17:08, Paul Hartman wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM,
5 >> 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>> I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware
8 >>> acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg.
9 >>>
10 >>> Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the configuration flag,
11 >>> but also brings in the "x11-libs/libvdpau" libraries which I think
12 >>> I do not want, as my NVidia proprietary driver provides these
13 >>> libraries.
14 >>
15 >> AFAIK Nvidia split the vdpau off into libvdpau late last year
16 >> sometime. On my system I use both nvidia-drivers and libvdpau without
17 >> issue. libvdpau provides libvdpau.so while nvidia-drivers provides
18 >> libvdpau_nvidia.so
19 >>
20 >> Here are my versions:
21 >>
22 >> x11-libs/libvdpau-0.3-r2 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15
23 >>
24 >> Are you using older versions? I use ~amd64 so maybe if you run stable
25 >> it has the older versions.
26 >>
27 >
28 >
29 > AHA! THANKS! that explains a lot - including why they made libvdpau
30 > ebuild a requirement for ffmpeg.
31 >
32 > I didn't know that libvdpau ebuild is simply an open-source version of
33 > libvdpau.so. (The webpage describes a "wrapper" - duh, what's a wrapper?
34 > But I suppose that if libvdpau.so is the first in line, and subsequently
35 > loads other "driver" components, then it could be called a wrapper).
36 >
37 > Portage fell behind the NVidia driver releases a while back - probably
38 > before the split you described - so I then started installing drivers
39 > directly from NVidia.com, and not portage.
40 >
41 > (And NVidia continues to bundle libvdpau.so (proprietary?) along with the
42 > other components.)
43 >
44 > So when ffmpeg wanted to add a "wrapper" to the mix, I decided no thanks
45 > and started this thread - finally figuring out that I needed to remove
46 > the requirement from the ebuild. Having libvdpau.so, everything worked fine.
47 >
48 > Now that I know what it is, I've installed the libvdpau package and
49 > updated the portage NV drivers to current. If portage keeps current I'll
50 > use it; if portage again falls behind I should be able to use NVidia.com and
51 > ffmpeg will compile either way.
52 >
53 > Thanks again for your help.
54
55 No problem. Also check out x11-misc/vdpauinfo it is a tool that shows
56 the vdpau capabilities of your video card/drivers (which codecs &
57 mixer features are supported).