[mythtv-users] Vaapi use on Sandy Bridge

[Mark Kendall]

On 26 January 2012 17:07, william otten <williammotten at gmail.com> wrote:
> So my questions:
> My attempt at get VAAPI working has failed...what is the problem / error in
> Mythtv?
> Does Ubuntu 11.10 come with all the needed software to support VAAPI?
> Is there a way other than the VAAPI selection in Mythtv to know if VAAPI is
> being used?
> Any advice would be appreciated.

Is it just mythfrontend that crashes? or the X server? If the former,
can you try and capture some sort of backtrace
(http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2). If the
latter, it's almost impossible to tell you whether it's a driver bug
or mythtv using the driver 'inappropriately'. (In fact - can you
capture a backtrace for either situation).

The 0.25 vaapi code is tested using the ubuntu-x-swat repository
enabled to get the latest libva and related fixes - it may be worth
trying that to see if it helps.

regards

Mark