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

[Matt Emmott]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

> 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
> _______________________________________________
>

As a clueless end-user, I always build a front end with an Nvidia GPU as
follows:

1) Install latest Ubuntu
2) Activate proprietary drivers
3) Install Mythbuntu-Control-Centre
4) Choose roles and run through video setup wizard
5) Enjoy.

So from my perspective, this doesn't bother me.
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