[mythtv-users] Vaapi use on Sandy Bridge

William Otten williammotten at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 19:09:00 UTC 2012


On 1/26/2012 11:30 AM, William Otten wrote:
> 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.
Tried the ubuntu-x-swat repo and no change. Still waiting for the mythtv 
update.


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