Hi guys,
I recently set up Ubuntu 10.10 and installed VLC 1.14 from the standard repository.
I'm using a Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT with the proprietary Nvidia drivers and have installed the vdpau-va-driver package.
The two hardware acceleration options ('Accelerated video output' in Video and 'Use GPU acceleration' in Input&Codecs) are checked in the preferences.
Nevertheless, when I try to play a 1080p HD video the output is extremely laggy (lost frames, artifacts and everything) and the CPU usage is high, so I take
it the hardware acceleration is not working.
VLC produces the following output:
VLC media player 1.1.4 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0xb72ff0d4, 0xb72ff048)
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Warning: call to srand(1301139912)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
(process:24800): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
m_el[mi_level] == NULL
arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
m_el[mi_level] == NULL
arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
libva: libva version 0.31.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[0x952ea64] avcodec decoder: Using VA API version 0.31 for hardware decoding.
Any ideas on how to fix this are highly appreciated.