[MPlayer-users] vaapi support in mplayer.

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 12:31 +0530, Anuj Mittal wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe at gmail.com>wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 10:30 -0500, Lu, Ran wrote:
> > > > > It kind of does via libva-gl which translates VDPAU to vaapi.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I tried libvdpau-va-gl, and for some reason it actually uses much
> > > > higher gpu
> > > > than the vaapi patch mplayer. I guess it is the overhead from
> > > > rendering
> > > > everything through opengl. When playing hi-res movies it kind of
> > > > defeating the
> > > > purpose to use va-gl since xv uses pretty much the same power. while
> > > > mplayer-
> > > > vaapi (or vdpau with a nvidia card) can really reduce the the power
> > > > consumption by half or more.
> > >
> > > I tried mplayer-vaapi on my Ubuntu 14.04 i7/Intel 4000 graphics laptop,
> > > but the playback was jerky across the board regardless of output and
> > > video format. mplayer packaged for Ubuntu works great, so something is
> > > wrong with the current mplayer-vaapi build for 14.04.
> > >
> > >
> > Can you paste here the mplayer-vaapi command line that you used? Do you
> > have the libva intel driver installed?
> 
> This is getting a bit more complicated. I am using SMPlayer which feeds
> this to mplayer:
> 
> /usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify
> -slave -vo vaapi -ao pulse -nokeepaspect -nodr -nodouble -input
> nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 73400361
> -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0
> -ass-font-scale 1 -noflip-hebrew
> -ass-styles /home/christian/.config/smplayer/styles.ass
> -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp
> ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 0 -subpos 100 -volume 100 -cache 2048 -ss 351
> -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -noslices -channels 2 -af
> scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max
> 110 /path/to/movie.mkv
> 
> The playback is jerky with mplayer-vaapi in SMPlayer
> 
> Then I tried with the simple command: mplayer -vo
> vaapi /path/to/movie.mkv running without SMPlayer and playback is
> perfect. So SMPlayer does not work well with mplayer-vaapi on my system.
> I guess I ned to ditch SMPlayer if I want to use mplayer-vaapi?

Since there is no -vc option none of these use hardware decoding.
If you didn't use e.g. -vc ffh264vdpau when you tested the VDPAU
wrapper you weren't using hardware decoding there either, so it's
no surprise that it only makes things slower.