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Multimedia / Re: mplayer - just stopped working...sort of...
« on: Today at 08:01:50 pm »
Hello KO!
Great pointer!!!
Sure enough, finding a few other videos I was able to play them through SNAP config, although that's not to say all 720s played, some would, some would not.
Then I remembered: the SNAP vidmem size is something I had tweaked in the past in order to free up max ram for my JFS cache (1G)...sure enough, I had it set to 18M, which for regular use was perfectly sufficient (1920x1200 x 2 heads). However, in this case, whether its the double-buffering or something else, perhaps this was causing me a problem?
I doubled up to 36M, and YUP...all of my 1080 vides play back just fine!!!
Eventually settled on 24M, which also happens to be the previous setting I had in place for a very long time...not sure why I had moved away from that, was probably experimenting with a larger JFS cache and just never remembered to bump that back up.
Anyways...sir: thank you for that spot-on remark!!!
...3. What's the value of '2D Acceleration' ?
"YES" on my machine
Then, your system should play a movie with 2D acceleration, that is, SNAP mode. Nevertheless, if it fails, your system or SNAP driver seem not to support 1080p with 2D acceleration. In order to verify this, how about other smaller clips than 1080p, such as 720p ?
Great pointer!!!
Sure enough, finding a few other videos I was able to play them through SNAP config, although that's not to say all 720s played, some would, some would not.
Then I remembered: the SNAP vidmem size is something I had tweaked in the past in order to free up max ram for my JFS cache (1G)...sure enough, I had it set to 18M, which for regular use was perfectly sufficient (1920x1200 x 2 heads). However, in this case, whether its the double-buffering or something else, perhaps this was causing me a problem?
I doubled up to 36M, and YUP...all of my 1080 vides play back just fine!!!
Eventually settled on 24M, which also happens to be the previous setting I had in place for a very long time...not sure why I had moved away from that, was probably experimenting with a larger JFS cache and just never remembered to bump that back up.
Anyways...sir: thank you for that spot-on remark!!!