[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2] nouveau: Add support for XvMC acceleration

[Marcin Slusarz]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:54:20AM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 06:59:39PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > Hey ★,
> > 
> > On 09/10/2011 06:28 PM, ★ Emeric wrote:
> > > Hi Maarten,
> > > I tried the v2 patch with my good old geforce 8600M GS, and it worked well.
> > > The CPU usage seems a little higher than usual, I'd said 60% instead of 40%
> > > for a 720p video, but I'll try with a higher bitrate video and without
> > > building with debug parameters to see if I can found a performance gain.
> > > The only problem is that I cannot seek through the video without an segfault
> > > on that error "X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource
> > > denied)", I attached a gdb backtrace. It appears to be related to the
> > > drawing of the mplayer OSD.
> > >
> > That's either a bug in mplayer or in the state tracker. What's oy and ox
> > set to at the time of the crash? and where does xvimage->data point to :)
> > 
> This is a bug in xf86-video-nouveau actually, and it leads to memory corruption
> in mplayer.
> 
> Patch below fixes it, but OSD still doesn't work.
> 

With commit f626d99edf17a1d3203b257f6fe6993229ea6866 in mesa OSD in mplayer
works (Yeah! ;). I've submitted patch for mplayer to disable OSD instead of
crashing.

Ben, can you review and push patch in the previous mail? (xv: support AI44/IA44)
Thanks.

Marcin