[mythtv-users] Vaapi use on Sandy Bridge

William Otten williammotten at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 17:30:50 UTC 2012


On 1/26/2012 11:26 AM, Mark Kendall wrote:
> On 26 January 2012 17:23, Mark Kendall<mark.kendall at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 26 January 2012 17:07, william otten<williammotten at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> So my questions:
>>> My attempt at get VAAPI working has failed...what is the problem / error in
>>> Mythtv?
>>> Does Ubuntu 11.10 come with all the needed software to support VAAPI?
>>> Is there a way other than the VAAPI selection in Mythtv to know if VAAPI is
>>> being used?
>>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>> Is it just mythfrontend that crashes? or the X server? If the former,
>> can you try and capture some sort of backtrace
>> (http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2). If the
>> latter, it's almost impossible to tell you whether it's a driver bug
>> or mythtv using the driver 'inappropriately'. (In fact - can you
>> capture a backtrace for either situation).
>>
>> The 0.25 vaapi code is tested using the ubuntu-x-swat repository
>> enabled to get the latest libva and related fixes - it may be worth
>> trying that to see if it helps.
> Oh - and you may want to try and update myth to the very latest code -
> I commited an opengl fix today that might be relevant.
>
> Mark
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It's the frontend that crashes not the x server. Also this system is 
just a frontend.
I will take a look at the backtrace option.
Also I will setup the ubuntu-x-swat repo and look for the latest update 
you submitted today.


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