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today I stumbled across an article stating that Intel now has released an installer for the intel graphics driver for ubuntu (and fedora) which takes care to install all required components and versions... I thought I'd give it a try and installed it.<br>
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Now vaapi works for me, my little itx celeron frontend plays HD content now with nice low 10% CPU load and without freezing (which it would immediately do after displaying the first frame of the video content when I tried vaapi before).<br>
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I just made a quick test - so ymmv (and mine).<br>
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But maybe it is useful (and new) information for somebody else - if so, go and check here:<br>
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<a href="https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2013/intel-linux-graphics-installer" target="_blank">https://01.org/linuxgraphics/<u></u>downloads/2013/intel-linux-<u></u>graphics-installer</a><br>
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Have fun,<br>
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Matthias<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>This is great! So, what's the cheapest / lowest end motherboard or PC that supports VAAPI? <br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Any Sandy/Ivy Bridge should do... coupled with a Celeron G540 (I'm pretty sure it will work). Easy to come in under $100 for this combo.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have a G540 based system that I will be testing this on... I'll post my results as soon as I have them.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Just finished the upgrade using the tool on the <a href="http://01.org">01.org</a>. Other than having to remove a ton of i386 library files that were on my AMD64 system to get it all to install... it went smoothly.<br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>Playing back a couple of 1080p test files I keep around, I saw a huge reduction in CPU load. Considering that this is my backend/server (various apps), and occasional frontend... it's nice to not be using CPU cycles when I do decide to watch tv in my office.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>On one test video, it was using 110% CPU before the upgrade, and the other was using 85%... both videos use ~5% after the upgrade... and the picture is damn good to my eye on my 22" monitor. Probably not quite as nice as VDPAU would be... but for casual watching it's great... and considering that I had no intention of adding a GPU... its awesome!</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Thanks for bringing this to my attention Matthias!</div></div><br></div></div>