<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Karl Newman <<a href="mailto:siliconfiend@gmail.com">siliconfiend@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <br>> You probably need mesa installed for the intel opengl drivers, and the<br>> X11 driver xf86-video-intel. Also be sure you have OpenGL set as the<br>> GUI renderer (or Auto should work, too, if your OpenGL is set up<br><br>Wait a sec...you've got VAAPI working with MythTV????<br><br>I think you're the only one that has gotten it to work. Late last year year, William and<br>I tried getting it to work and had the same symptoms as John is having now.<br>I.e., if you choose the VAAPI renderer (not default, so you had to go through extra<br>steps to set up a new playback profile) for playback in MythTV, the screen would<br>go black and MythTV would bomb out (it never did a fallback to another rendered).<br>I've been leaving it on
the MythTV defaults and it's basically brute forcing playback<br>w/ my sandy bridge 2500K in software. I blogged about it back then when I thought<br>I had it solved but didn't realize I had to turn on VAAPI playback in MythTV so I was<br>doing software playback:<br> http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-8P95MH<br><br>So to get yours to work, you had to install mesa which is basically opengl<br>for the sandy bridge HD3000 graphics? Then you tell MythTV to use OpenGL<br>for playback instead of using MythTV's VAAPI support? That would explain why you<br>got yours to work instead of seeing the black screen crashes ;-)<br><br> ken<br><br></div></body></html>