video files have issues playing

[Eric Zig]

SD or HD videos

VLC: black screen and there no sound
Totem: video doesn't run properly but there sound

Videos tested:

mkv hd:
video: 1280 x 720, H264, 24 frames
audio: Dolby Digital (AC-3), Surround 5.1, 48000 Hz, 384 kbps

mkv sd:
video: 720 x 576, H264, 30 frames
audio: MPEG-4 AAC, Stereo, 44100 Hz

avi:
video: 576 x 432, DivX MPEG-4 Version 5, 24 frames
audio: MPEG 1 Audio, Layer 3 (MP3), Stereo, 44100 Hz, 127 kbps

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

What codecs cause this?

[Eric Zig (zuric)]

It's for mkv and avi files
I don't try other

[Eric Zig (zuric)]

Sorry...

mkv hd:
video: 1280 x 720, H264, 24 frames
audio: Dolby Digital (AC-3), Surround 5.1, 48000 Hz, 384 kbps

mkv sd:
video: 720 x 576, H264, 30 frames
audio: MPEG-4 AAC, Stereo, 44100 Hz

avi:
video: 576 x 432, DivX MPEG-4 Version 5, 24 frames
audio: MPEG 1 Audio, Layer 3 (MP3), Stereo, 44100 Hz, 127 kbps

Voila

[Kaustubh Purandare (kpurandare)]

We have accelerated Gstreamer functional for Tegra 3 for all AV formats working. Tested with gst-launch and TOTEM as well.

[Jani Monoses (jani)]

Hi Kaustubh,
please provide a link to the sources so we can test.
thanks

[Kaustubh Purandare (kpurandare)]

Hi,

The accelerated GST-OPenMax package binaries is provided as part of L4T distro (Linux for Tegra). Anyone can download the BSP from the Nvidia website.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/devzone/linux-for-tegra.html

Thanks,
Kaustubh

[Chris Wayne (cwayne)]

@Eric Zig,

Can you post the exact files you used to test with this?

[david6 (andrew-dowden)]

As this is a reference platform, any testing should be similar for anyone.

Can you suggest what file types, codecs would be good to test? (And what should work?)

I have a lot video files, but very little suitable as uploadable 'test' files ..

[Victor Tuson Palau (vtuson)]

related, I am having problems playing files with VLC that work with Totem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/+bug/1076982

[Chris Wayne (cwayne)]

As victor pointed out in other bugs, totem and VLC have problems playing big buck bunny (http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/) in 720p. 480p works fine, and 1080p is essentially a slideshow.

[Chris Wayne (cwayne)]

Please re-try this without having VLC installed. My current theory is that VLC is pulling in additional codecs which may be breaking the tegra3-codecs package. Without vlc, I was able to watch this file:
http://downloads.dvdloc8.com/trailers/divxdigest/simpsons_movie_trailer.zip

Although there was some noticable stuttering, once it began running it was watchable.

Note: Totem froze halfway through but that looks to be a seperate issue for now.

[Eric Zig (zuric)]

Yes, I confirm, It's better without vlc for simpsons trailer

An other test:
Download big bunny 720p ogg on (http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/)
run:
gst-launch filesrc location=big_buck_bunny_720p_stereo.ogg ! oggdemux ! theoradec ! xvimagesink

This test is just for the video
The image is ugly and there are lot stuttering, with and without vlc installed

[Sean Feole (sfeole)]

I myself tried to play a few videos, specifically .mov files encoded with H.264. I noticed that the movie * 480p * would start to play for about 2 seconds then the video would hang. This was resolved if I paused the movie and moved the slider a few frames forward then resumed.

Re-assigning this bug to Alex Chiang, bug already tagged with Tegra3. Hopefully Nvidia may be able to give us some pointers / optimizations

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

The video players need to be made using GLES. The xbmc package (Universe) is built with GLES graphics acceleration and videos play fluently with it. See also

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/UsingTheDevice#Nexus_7_with_Ubuntu_getting_useful:_Media_Player

Also YouTube videos play fluently in Firefox in HTML-5 mode. See

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/UsingTheDevice#Watching_YouTube_videos

Perhaps these facts can help making apps like Movie Player and VLC playing videos smoothly.

[Kaustubh Purandare (kpurandare)]

Did you guys try with the accelerared Gstreamer plugins from Nvidia ? (my comment #6)

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

the gstreamer codecs are not packaged for raring yet, i'll be working on this during the next week...

this will indeed only fix players that also use gstreamer (i.e. totem), others (vlc) wont be able to use HW accel for video playback...

[Kaustubh Purandare (kpurandare)]

We (Nvidia) has a plan in place to accelerate FFMPEG as well, hopefully that should support acceleration for VLC and other FFMPEG bases apps.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

do you also have plans to port the omx gstreamer bits to gst 1.0 ? it is likely that we'll drop the older gstreamer bits before 13.04 releases (1.0 is already in the archive and 0.10 completely moved from main to universe)