On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:16 PM, James <bjloc...@lockie.ca> wrote: > On 2018-05-01 06:00 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:53 PM, James <bjloc...@lockie.ca> wrote: >>> I am playing videos from my lubuntu computer to my tv through the hdmi >>> interface on my video card. >>> It mostly works. >>> Some sound doesn't and I think it is related to the audio code. >>> A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52) works. >>> It seems MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a) doesn't work. >>> I checked a video that used to work and it doesn't work now. >>> It has the mp4a codec also. >>> >>> The one that used to work shows this in Tools/Messages: >>> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 7 >>> >>> The new one that doesn't work shows this in Tools/Messages: >>> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 8 >>> >>> I think it might be related to the noveau video driver: >>> $ vainfo >>> libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0 >>> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 >>> libva info: Trying to open >>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so >>> libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 >>> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit >> >> What GPU do you have? For video acceleration (i.e. va-api and vdpau), >> did you install the necessary firmware? >> > > I didn't need firmware before but it looks like I do now. > I will look into that.
Well, you don't need it to play back video. You only need it for GPU-accelerated video decoding (which is what you get when using va-api or vdpau). See https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ for the details. -ilia _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau