[mythtv-users] VAAPI with Intel HD 4400

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sun May 4 05:35:28 UTC 2014


On Sun, 4 May 2014 00:19:17 +0200, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a new laptop and I want to use it as a frontend. I am using
>0.27 mythtv in Debian Wheezy machines with 3.13 backport kernel.
>
>I install the packages listed in the wiki:
>
>apt-get install libva1 i965-va-driver libva-intel-vaapi-driver vainfo
>
>The problem is that "vainfo" doesn't show nothing:
>
>$ vainfo
>libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
>Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
>libva: va_getDriverName() returns -1
>vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
>
>I am missing some configuration?
>
>I change the video playback profile to "VAAPI Normal" but HD content
>is not looking good (4 CPU cores to 90%).
>
>I will appreciate any help, this is my first time with VAAPI.

You might like to try installing the Intel drivers from 01.org.  They
are usually better than the ones in the distros.  And they install
compatible libraries and so on.  That was what I had to do to get my
MSI GT70 laptop to work with VAAPI (Core i7-3610QM).


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