[mythtv-users] vaapi doesn't work on mythtv-frontend, but works on Kodi 16.0

[James Abernathy]

I have a frontend system built on a NUC D332127GKE board with a Intel Core i3-3217U CPU at 1.80GHZ

It was originally built with Kodibuntu 14, but has been upgraded to Kodi 16.0 kernel is 3.13.0.79 x86_64

When I have Kodi play a recorded OTA TV program, I can use ssh to run top and I see ~10% CPU for the Kodi.bin. I have acceleration set to vaapi and it’s obviously working.

I also run Mythtv-frontend fixes/0.27(v0.27-193-g8ee257c)

I can’t get vaapi to work on mythtv frontend.  As a test I start the frontend and go to the setup wizard to the Video Configuration and set Video Playback Profile to VAAPI Normal (the only vaapi I have a choice of). I play the HD test video, and I get a big red X in the upper right corner.  I then exit and go to the log. I’ve attached the log in pastebin from the time I started the session until I exited.  I have a number of errors, but the vaapi is what I’m interested in.

http://pastebin.com/EKmD1bK2

If I play the HD test video with Normal or High Quality profile, I see ~20% CPU utilization. For OpenGL High quality I see ~ 27% But VAAPI doesn’t work at all.

A shorter log is below:

Mar  2 09:12:37 Kodibuntu mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1879]: E CoreContext videooutbase.cpp:315 (Create) VideoOutput: Not compiled with any useable video output method.
Mar  2 09:12:37 Kodibuntu mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1879]: E CoreContext mythplayer.cpp:496 (InitVideo) Player(0): Couldn't create VideoOutput instance. Exiting..
Mar  2 09:12:37 Kodibuntu mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1879]: E CoreContext mythplayer.cpp:2808 (StartPlaying) Player(0): Unable to initialize video.
Mar  2 09:12:37 Kodibuntu mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1879]: E CoreContext playercontext.cpp:455 (StartPlaying) playCtx: StartPlaying() Failed to start player
Mar  2 09:12:37 Kodibuntu mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1879]: I CoreContext tv_play.cpp:2550 (HandleStateChange) TV: Main UI disabled.
Mar  2 09:12:37 Kodibuntu mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1879]: I CoreContext tv_play.cpp:411 (StartTV) TV: Entering main playback loop.
Mar  2 09:12:37 Kodibuntu mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1879]: I CoreContext screensaver-x11.cpp:149 (DisableDPMS) ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1