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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><div>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Eric B <bernhart2002@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> > What driver are you using? the open source driver or the AMD driver?<br>> > The open source driver is much better, you but probably need to to install<br>> > the VDPAU kernel module to get it working well with mythtv.<br>> > there are directions in the wiki about how to do it.<br>> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU<br>> > but the short version to get it working in ubuntu 14.04 is<br>> > sudo apt-get install mesa-vdpau-drivers vdpauinfo<br>> > then test is with<br>> > vdpauinfo<br>> > from there all you need to do setup the video play back in mythtv to vpdauu<br>> > Anyhow let me know if you have more problems and I'll try to walk you through it.<br><br>So I have xorg-edgers PPA and the radeon driver from there.<br>I installed Mythtv, 0.27 and VDPAU (as above).<br><br>vdpauinfo said;<br>display: :0 screen: 0<br>Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br>Error creating VDPAU device: 1<br><br>but I tried Mythtv anyway and it worked ok!<br>Changed to VDPAU in frontend set up/video/playback - and it failed to initialize, but back on normal or HQ, and all OpenGL settings it works fine.<br>In fact everything worked fine - so I added the 0.27 PPA in mythbuntu control centre and updated to 0.27.04.<br>Now mythtv still plays back ok - recordings, videos, live tv etc...<br>....*But* my backend set-up freezes whenever I choose a menu. <br>Frontend menu works OK - apart from the set up -audio, -video. -general and -appearance menus. themes, media settings ok.<br><br>So I have a 'sort of' working system, but now need to get the set up menus working again?<br>Any ideas?<br></div> </div></body>
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