[mythtv-users] Vaapi use on Sandy Bridge

[Mark Kendall]

On 26 January 2012 17:23, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Oh - and you may want to try and update myth to the very latest code -
I commited an opengl fix today that might be relevant.

Mark