[mythtv-users] VDPAU vs VAAPI vs OpenGL on mythtv

[Jeremy D. Eiden]

On 12/4/18 5:29 PM, James Abernathy wrote:
>
>> On Dec 4, 2018, at 5:54 PM, Steve Greene <sgreene820 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:sgreene820 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Jim,
>> VAAPI still works for my hardware. I was surprised VDPAU did as well, 
>> it never used to.
>>
>
> Okay, I must have missed the announcement.  If memory serves, you used 
> to have the use painter set to Qt.  Which is what installation set and 
> what I had when VAAPI didn’t work.  I ran from console and saw an 
> error about can’t run opengl with qt.  So I went to Setup > Appearance 
> > paint engine  and changed it from qt to auto and now VAAPI works. As 
> well VDPAU, OpenGL High Quality.  They all seem to work the same.
>
> Thanks for the confirmation that VAAPI should work on an Intel GFX. :-)
>
> Jim A
>
What I read - and do - is that in order to use VAAPI the painter engine 
has to be OpenGL, which is probably why your "auto" setting works.  
VAAPI works perfect on my NUCs, as long as the engine is OpenGL.

I can't get VDPAU to work on them - but then again I'm still on 28-fixes.


>> Steve
>>
>> Steve Greene
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>>
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:27 PM James Abernathy 
>> <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On 12/1/18 1:07 PM, James Abernathy wrote:
>>>     I confused about what setting to use.
>>>
>>>     In the recent past, I always set the video drivers on Intel GFX
>>>     hardware to VAAPI.  Now on 29.1 it fails. Normal, VDPAU High
>>>     Quality, and OpenGL High Quality all work and I can’t tell if
>>>     there is any difference.
>>>
>>>     I’ve started thinking about this because on the Kodi forum there
>>>     is a lot of talk about how you have to force VAAPI drivers on
>>>     Intel hardware and not let the Modeset stuff pick out what to
>>>     use.  The is related to Kodi 18rc. There are a bunch of setting
>>>     to get the video to be as smooth as it use to be on 17.6.  Back
>>>     then mythfrontend and Kodi had equal quality on my Core i3 Ivy
>>>     Bridge NUC.  In making Kodi 18rc work right I got both equal
>>>     again, but not sure what changed on the mythfrontend side since
>>>     have not modified any myth settings.
>>>
>>>     Jim A
>>>
>>>
>>     I have not seen a reply.  Did this get out or is it not a valid
>>     question?
>>
>>     Jim A
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
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