No VDPAU acceleration in mplayer2 / smplayer with Nvidia 9600GT

[couchbotato]

Well I found this and I have couple of questions for you.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11882327 and especially http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post11882074

I have clean fresh install and I havent been using Linux for 1-2 years now and I am little bit confused again..

Is it safe to add these extra PPA:s ? And that advice sucks anyways because first he tells to install some unstable version, then he reverts it back with these mysterious commands that are unfamiliar for me again..

Re: can i install a newer version of mplayer
You can install today's daily build of mplayer from this PPA. Run these commands

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:motumedia/mplayer-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer
to replace the version of mplayer on your machine with the one from that repository.

Since this build uses the daily snapshots of mplayer, there's a chance it will be unstable and not function properly. If you want to revert to the standard version, run these commands

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:motumedia/mplayer-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge mplayer
sudo apt-get install mplayer

This is so confusing. I dont want to use daily snapshots, I want stable version, but that advice is somehow very confusing..

I have installed mplayer2 and smplayer with "Muon package manager" and selected "vdpau" from smplayer preferences but CPU utilization goes higher and surely it is not working.. video output "xv" gives about 30% cpu utilization and with "vdpau" selected it goes over 50%

And if I try to launch it from the terminal with "mplayer -vc ffh264vdpau -fs FileName-720p.avi" it doesent work either. No picture at all.

VDPAU with smplayer used to work back in 2009 when I was using Gentoo Linux so I am quite disappointed about this..

I just dont want to spoil my clean fresh installation with tons of garbage from some extra PPA's
My friend told that I should use mplayer instead of mplayer2 perhaps I will give it a try...

[couchbotato]

Well now I removed mplayer2 and installed old mplayer

720p movie uses 25% cpu with AMD Athlon x2 5000+ and Nvidia 9600GT so clearly the vdpau is not working.. Here is some info from smplayer's mplayer log

MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.

Playing /home/username/Desktop/leathal_weapon_720.avi.
libavformat version 53.21.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
AVI file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (2 superindexchunks).
VIDEO:  [XVID]  1280x544  24bpp  23.976 fps  2979.8 kbps (363.7 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Software
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
Load subtitles in /home/username/Desktop/
ID_FILENAME=/home/username/Desktop/leathal_weapon_720.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=XVID
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=2979800
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=544
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=640000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=6864.03
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
Opening video filter: [ass auto=1]
Couldn't open video filter 'ass'.
ASS: cannot add video filter
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
Forced video codec: ffwmv3vdpau
Forced video codec: ffvc1vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 53.35.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.32.2
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 53
Unsupported PixelFormat 81
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffodivx
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 640.0 kbit/41.67% (ratio: 80000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=640000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffac3
Starting playback...
[ac3 @ 0x7fbb1428f4c0]frame sync error
[mpeg4 @ 0x7fbb1428f4c0]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected
Movie-Aspect is 2.35:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.3529
VO: [vdpau] 1280x544 => 1280x544 Planar YV12 

[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.

If I choose ffodivxvdpau option from smplayer - preferences - video - vdpau configure it will crash immediately and wont play at all. Everything else is choosen, ffh264vdpau, ffmpeg12vdpau, ffwmv3vdpau, ffc1vdpau and "disable software video filters" too.

Same movies are working fine with my Hackintosh Snow Leopard XBMC with Nvidia support.. (Atom 330 + Nvidia ION) plays even 1080p smoothly with low CPU usage