[mythtv-users] Ubuntu Will Not Enable Open-Source VDPAU Support

[Thomas Mashos]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please check out the following article over at Phoronix:
>
> www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYwNzU
>
> It says that Canonical will not enable VDPAU driver support for
> open-source hHW-accelerated video decoding in Ubuntu 14.04. The reason
> cited is size; Mesa bloat.
>
> I wonder whether Mythbuntu will plug that gap.
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Probably not, but I'll defer to superm1 on this (although he's
currently on vacation I think). There are a few things to consider for
us to do this.

1) Work involved. We're already a small enough team as it is that
adding a large workload to us would be a problem. This is especially
true (as it could be considered unnecessary) since VDPAU is available
in the proprietary drivers. (But from the discussion it appears to
just be a build flag)
2) The need. Are there a lot of people that would need/want this? (or
are we building them for 2 people (see ARM build discussion))
3) Size of packages. While the link mentions it adding 8.5MB to the
live CD (which we couldn't do because we can only have things on the
Live CD in the official repos), what does that mean for archive size?
We're only allows X amount (I believe 3GB of space, which is for
source packages, binaries, and dependencies) on each of our PPA's, so
if building Mesa is going to be oversized, then that could put the
nail in the coffin.

Thanks,

Thomas