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On 03/26/10 17:08, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, |
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> 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware |
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>> acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. |
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>> Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the configuration flag, |
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>> but also brings in the "x11-libs/libvdpau" libraries which I think |
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>> I do not want, as my NVidia proprietary driver provides these |
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>> libraries. |
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> AFAIK Nvidia split the vdpau off into libvdpau late last year |
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> sometime. On my system I use both nvidia-drivers and libvdpau without |
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> issue. libvdpau provides libvdpau.so while nvidia-drivers provides |
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> libvdpau_nvidia.so |
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> Here are my versions: |
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> x11-libs/libvdpau-0.3-r2 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15 |
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> Are you using older versions? I use ~amd64 so maybe if you run stable |
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> it has the older versions. |
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AHA! THANKS! that explains a lot - including why they made libvdpau |
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ebuild a requirement for ffmpeg. |
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I didn't know that libvdpau ebuild is simply an open-source version of |
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libvdpau.so. (The webpage describes a "wrapper" - duh, what's a wrapper? |
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But I suppose that if libvdpau.so is the first in line, and subsequently |
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loads other "driver" components, then it could be called a wrapper). |
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Portage fell behind the NVidia driver releases a while back - probably |
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before the split you described - so I then started installing drivers |
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directly from NVidia.com, and not portage. |
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(And NVidia continues to bundle libvdpau.so (proprietary?) along with the |
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other components.) |
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So when ffmpeg wanted to add a "wrapper" to the mix, I decided no thanks |
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and started this thread - finally figuring out that I needed to remove |
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the requirement from the ebuild. Having libvdpau.so, everything worked fine. |
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Now that I know what it is, I've installed the libvdpau package and |
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updated the portage NV drivers to current. If portage keeps current I'll |
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use it; if portage again falls behind I should be able to use NVidia.com and |
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ffmpeg will compile either way. |
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Thanks again for your help. |
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