[mythtv-users] VAAPI / OpenGL and myth 0.26 - black screen on playback

[John Pilkington]

On 03/10/13 12:14, Andrey Zhunev wrote:
> Hello Stephen,
>
> Thursday, October 3, 2013, 1:37:07 PM, you wrote:
>
>>> CentOS 6.4 and MythTV 0.26 with Intel Sandy Bridge video. Whenever I
>>> set mythfrontend to use vaapi or OpenGL, I get a black screen during
>>> video playback (sound works fine).
>
>> Have you checked out the latest Intel drivers and installer?  I got
>> VAAPI running on my laptop using the installer - it makes sure you
>> have a fully compatible set of software as well as the latest drivers.
>
>> https://01.org/linuxgraphics
>
>> Of course, that was on Mythbuntu 12.04 - I am not sure if they support
>> CentOS.
>
> Unfortunately, the installer only supports Ubuntu and Fedora...
>
> Not sure if I will be able to just compile it from source and run it
> on CentOS. I will give it a try, but I suspect there will be some
> dependencies or prerequisites that won't make it easy...
>
>
>
Have you looked at elrepo?  In particular, elrepo-extras?  I have 
xorg-x11-drv-intel installed, although my chipset doesn't support vaapi.

Also elrepo-kernel, where kernel-lt supports tuners that the stock 
el6-clones don't.  Comes with warnings but works-for-me.