[mythtv-users] re. Mythtv 0.27.04 kills video playback with Radeon 7750

PlainFaceBoy plainfaceboy at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 31 08:55:50 UTC 2015


> What driver are you using? the open source driver or the AMD driver?

The stable one from xorg -edgers PPA

> but the short version to get it working in ubuntu 14.04 is
> sudo apt-get install mesa-vdpau-drivers vdpauinfo
> then test is with
> vdpauinfo
>
> from there all you need to do setup the video play back in mythtv to 
> vpdauu

I'll try this with the xorg-edgers driver - I'd thought that one was 
supposed to be the 'best' one?
>
> Also if this gets everything working for you, could you please update the
> wiki with playback results as there is limited results documented (only my
> results and one other person) in it and nothing from the south island chip
> set.

Will do.
Thanks for help - I'd thought it was vdpau related, but wasn't sure of best 
way forward to avoid another re-install! 



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