Archive for September 2nd, 2009

September 2nd, 2009

freevo tweaky follow-up

So a bit more tweaking later, I have improved my freevo setup EVEN MORE. For super-awesome NVIDIA love: Here’s the sneakiness… in local_conf.py, you want to set up something like this: MPLAYER_ARGS = { ‘mkv’ : ‘-vo vdpau -sid 0′, ‘mp4′ : ‘-vo vdpau -demuxer lavf -sid 0′, ‘default’ : ‘-vo vdpau -cache 5000 -sid [...]

September 2nd, 2009

an odyssey: mplayer, NVIDIA, VDPAU and video tearing

It’s interesting what side alleys you wander into sometimes… I spent a few minutes updating Mandriva’s moovida packages today (well, just backporting to 2009.0 and 2009.1, and re-adding a patch I’d disabled a while ago). I periodically check out moovida to see if it could replace freevo on my HTPC setup. It’s always getting better, [...]