[solved] NVidia proprietary drivers

[fmaMember]

Hi,

 

How do I enable/install NVidia proprietary drivers in geeXboX 3.0?

 

Thanks,

[tomlohaveModerator]

opkg update

opkg install xf86-video-nvidia

from terminal or remote shell

or go to programm/geexbox updater, perform an upgrade and  select packages xf86-video-nvidia

in both cases, reboot

[fmaMember]

Thanks!

I have another question: do I need proprietary drivers to have VDPAU supported witg my 8400GS card (which does support VDPAU)?

After my first install, reading a 1080p video was using 70% on both CPU (AMD Athlon 64), and only 30% for 720p. The strange thing is that using the live geeXboX CD, same videos were only using 10% of CPU!!!

I re-installed geeXboX, and this time, only 18% CPU are used, whatever the resolution of the video. This is muce better, but still higher than with live geeXboX.

Any idea why?

[tomlohaveModerator]

Thanks!

I have another question: do I need proprietary drivers to have VDPAU supported witg my 8400GS card (which does support VDPAU)?

yes

The strange thing is that using the live geeXboX CD, same videos were only using 10% of CPU!!!

I re-installed geeXboX, and this time, only 18% CPU are used, whatever the resolution of the video. This is muce better, but still higher than with live geeXboX.

it’s a bug

[fmaMember]

Do you mean that the CPU is more than 18%? I can see that the video is really smooth.

What is the bug?

[fmaMember]

I checked again. In the Xorg log file, the nouveau driver seems to say that it supports VDPAU.

And the full HD videos works fine, with little use of CPU (18%). This is much better than with my quad core Q6600, which does not have a card supporting VDPAU.

What do you think about? Is there sime logs somewhere really saying if the player uses VDPAU or not?

[tomlohaveModerator]

i mean it’s a bug if you can see only 18%

 

check log from xbmc :

in /root/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log

 

you can use htop too (install it first and connect from ssh)

[fmaMember]

Mmm, this time, I get 60% again! And I can see in the log that the VDPAU failed.

[tomlohaveModerator]

🙂

[fmaMember]

Ok, nvidia drivers solved the problem; CPU are now arround 6 and15%.

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