[mythtv-users] Re : Is there a way to activate Video Acceleration API for Intel Ironlake (HD Graphics) on MythTV?

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Wed Jun 23 18:20:00 UTC 2010


On 06/23/2010 11:44 AM, Xavier de Almeida wrote:
> In the news, it is written:
> In order to use VAAPI, you need a media player that supports it. E.g.
> you can get mplayer with vaapi support from mplayer-vaapi-latest.tar.bz2
> <http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/mplayer-vaapi/mplayer-vaapi-latest.tar.bz2>
> Therefore I assume it will be a new parameter to be selected like xvmc,
> xv, etc... or do you think it will be part of xvmc option?
> which means that it can work today if we have at least:
>
>     * Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc5
>       <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.34-rc5.tar.bz2>
>       with enable-multiple-ring-buffer.patch
>       <http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download/enable-multiple-ring-buffer.patch>
>     * Libdrm: libdrm 2.4.20
>       <http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.20.tar.bz2> with
>       libdrm_multiple_ring_buffer_on_master.patch
>       <http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download/libdrm_multiple_ring_buffer_on_master.patch>
>     * Libva: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libva (i965_h264 branch)
>       0c70b6b6c6f65fe67e525dfa7be75ae036549f6d
>
>

Further down on that page, or the 2.11 announcement page there was a 
link to a vaapi enabled version of mplayer.

So you would at least need that.
G.


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