[mythtv-users] Intel i965 video buffers errors on frontend - libva-vdpau

[evade.]

On 12/07/17 22:00, Mark Perkins wrote:
> 
>> I just realised that I cut a section of my original post where I
>> mentioned that I have these packages installed:
>> libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4-14, libvdpau-va-gl-0.4.2-2 & libvdpau-1.11-3
>>
>> I thought that subset of VDPAU was supported for VAAPI hardware by the
>> libva-vdpau driver? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API)
>>
> 
> Doesn't that just say that you can use libva to access vdpau (nvidia)
> hardware using libva-vdpau driver? (IIUC). You don't have nvidia hardware
> so it can't be working.
> 
> 

Hi Mark,

Hmm.  I see what you mean about the Wikipedia article.

I may have confused the VAAPI driver for VDPAU-supporting hardware 
(libva-vdpau-driver for NVIDIA) with the VDPAU driver for 
VAAPI-supporting hardware (libvdpau-va-gl for Intel)!

According to the Arch wiki 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Installing_VDPAU 
says:
"Intel GMA 4500 series and newer GPUs are supported by libvdpau-va-gl 
(see #Installing VA-API)."


Having said that, the libvdpau-va-gl driver may not be well maintained: 
https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl

I guess I'll stick with VAAPI, fall back to software or even use Kodi as 
a frontend (it seems to have good VAAPI support and wasn't using VDPAU 
as I first suspected).


Thanks for that,
evade.