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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have installed Lubuntu raring-desktop-i386 in an old but once powerful
hp-workstation, where I work with video clips from my video camera.

This exercise is also reported in the qatracker, daily build 2013-04-21.

The computer has double xeon processors (2x2 cores) and an nvidia
geforce gt430 graphics card.

Nouveau works well. I did not see any difference compared to
nvidia-current (the proprietary driver) running mplayer. Of course
nouveau doesn't offer vdpau, but running mplayer without any explicit
options gives the same result with HD 1080p video (with a margin fast
enough for a difficult video clip). And this graphics card runs vdpau
with the proprietary driver, which leaves very little to do for the CPUs.

I need not install flashplugin-installer to play HD 720p video from the
internet in chromium-browser and firefox. This is different from the
alternate iso. Video and audio work out of the box when playing video
clips from the internet. But I need to install pulseaudio and
pavucontrol to get sound via an aureal vortex card, when I play audio or
video from local files with mplayer. Otherwise the audio is 'hijacked'
for hdmi by the gt430 graphics card, and I failed to fix it with alsamixer.

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The following commands were taken from .bash_history and show what I
have installed and the mplayer commands.

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
nvidia-settings # to be prompted for the next command
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo reboot # to start using the proprietary graphics driver

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

mplayer 00007.MTS # play a file created with my video camera

alias mplayervdpau='mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau \
-lavdopts skiploopfilter=nonref -use-filename-title -fs'

mplayervdpau 00007.MTS

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Question:

I noticed that jockey-gtk is not bundled with lubuntu, but it seems to
be available in the repos. Is there supposed to be any automatic
searching for hardware, where proprietary drivers should be used?