F11 - lost accelerated MPEG playback

[LionelHutz]

Have a system that previously had F9 and F10 on it, with video hardware:
Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

xorg.conf is using
Driver "intel"

F9 and F10 would pass MPEG to the video card for accelerated decoding and playback and it worked just great in VLC, MPLAYER, etc.

F11 installed (fresh install, not upgrade) and the accelerated path seems to be gone. CPU utilization goes very high when playing back any MPEG video.

Additionally, the following information is observed coming out of MPLAYER:

MPEG-ES file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 1920x1080 (aspect 1) 59.940 fps 15000.0 kbps (1875.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed

It looks to me like the video driver is being queried whether it supports Mpeg PES colorspace, and the answer seems to be no, so then it falls back to software decoding.

But my hardware hasn't changed...

Intel driver broken?
Anyone else seeing this?

[LionelHutz]

OK - I think I can call off the hounds on this one.

For a variety of reasons, I believe VLC is presently screwed up in video (at least with intel hw) so I am removing it from the equation.

Digging further in mplayer, I found the mplayer that is delivered to FC11 via YUM (mplayer-1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11.x86_64) is not compiled for AC3 pass-through support and it seems the AC3 decoding was therefore being done in software. Compiled mplayer from source (mplayer-export-2009-06-19), using the "--disable-pulse" switch for good measure and now mplayer is performing like it used to on FC10.

[swimi]

wtf?

i cant play mp3s in F11, some kind of patent issue?

whats going on here?

EDIT: i think i might need the "librh_mp3.so" file.

[LionelHutz]

Yes - there are some things not being distributed in F11 due to various disputes. I cannot recall if MP3 is one of them. One of the first things I did was attach to the RPMFUSION repository, which contains a lot of the AV packages not in the fedora distribution. Might give it a shot here:

http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

[tquang]

Yes, you need install rpmfusion free and non-free. Then run yum update.