<p>On Aug 7, 2012 10:05 AM, "fred watt" wrote:<br>
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> Hi all - <br>
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> As a long time mythtv user I am unable to get VAAPI working. I am able to view a mythtv bbc one hd recording in VLC using VAAPI (looks very nice) but have never been able to playback the same or any recording using VAAPI in mythfrontend.<br>
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> Does VAAPI work? Has anyone had success? Does it work at all in 0.25. Any one seen it work with 0.26 beta?<br>
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> I am running Ubuntu 12.04, MythTV 0.25.20120506-. I have tried the stock libva/i965_drv_video with Ubuntu plus rebuilt libva/intel driver using these instructions <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VAAPI">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VAAPI</a>. Each time the playback in mythfrontend stutters and is completely unwatchable. <br>
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> But using same libraries with VLC as follows delivers great video (wonderfully to watch htop at this point and see almost no CPU usage - excellent). The video was recorded by mythbackend - BBC Sports in HD.<br>
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> vlc --ffmpeg-hw '6050_20120805192243.mpg' <br>
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> I have two front ends i3 & i5 clarkdale same issues on both.<br>
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> I have been trying well over a year to get this to work - I really can't see what I am doing wrong, or what else to try. Any thoughts?<br>
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> "As an aside... we really love MythTV... we don't use it daily... but that's the point we can watch what we want when we want.. Thank you."</p>
<p>I have an Ivy Bridge box (2500K),running Mythbuntu 12.04, and was never able to make it work (again, VLC worked fine). I eventually gave up - the CPU runs at about 50% playing back HD, and it does commflagging in real time, so my needs are met for the moment. I figured someone would eventually solve it.! <br>
Cheers, <br>
Geoff <br>
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