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Linux Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto)
Most likely not. If you want it persistent, check the global config files. Google will help you :-)

PS: I don't know better, I learned PA one day prior to writing the Sink.
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i'm trying to find out about making these settings persistent in the pulseaudio and xbmc irc channels, could not find anything about it in the manpages

it really is a weird one, every command that can be used with pactl seems to have it's implementation in pacmd and therefore is in the pa-cli-syntax and can be used in the config files.
just the set-sink-formats command does not seem to have a command in pacmd

EDIT: i now use a workaround and call a sh script via the upstart service which first calls pactl and sets the parameters and then starts xbmc. works for now.
and once again i'm running into problems. Smile

I built xbmc with pulse enabled but now I can't seem to enable live tv. whenever I enable TV in xbmc's settings xbmc crashes.
xbmc's log shows:
Code:
21:58:27 T:139969066665728  NOTICE: PVRManager - starting up
21:58:27 T:139969467582208  NOTICE: Thread PVRManager start, auto delete: false
21:58:27 T:139968806639360  NOTICE: Thread PVRClient start, auto delete: false
21:58:27 T:139969758697344    INFO: stopping PVRManager
21:58:27 T:139969758697344  NOTICE: PVRManager - stopping
21:58:27 T:139969467582208   DEBUG: Thread PVRManager 139969467582208 terminating
21:58:57 T:139968370415360   DEBUG: Thread JobWorker 139968370415360 terminating (autodelete)
21:58:57 T:139968772482816   DEBUG: Thread JobWorker 139968772482816 terminating (autodelete)
21:58:57 T:139967573501696   DEBUG: Thread JobWorker 139967573501696 terminating (autodelete)
21:58:57 T:139969066665728   DEBUG: Thread JobWorker 139969066665728 terminating (autodelete)

i first thought it had something to do with there not being any pvr addons installed, so I installed them via PPA. same problem. then i compiled xbmc-pvr-addons but that just gives me "addon dependancies not met" when i try to install them from zip in xbmc.

i also tried compiling xbmc with --enable-pvr but everything results in the same problem.
Not related to this howto. Use the packages this howto provide, all pvr addons are available for easy installation via apt-get. Wsnipex has picked up the --enable-pulse flag, so no need to build one your own anymore.
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(2014-01-13, 23:07)uuzi Wrote: I built xbmc with pulse enabled but now I can't seem to enable live tv. whenever I enable TV in xbmc's settings xbmc crashes.

Try to disable VDPAU in xbmc settings. It help for me. I already open bug against MESA ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73480 )

EDIT: sorry, i think you have problem with mpeg2 playback, not with just pvr enable. Should note what at least Mediaportal and PVR backends from PPA working.
@doctor64: Read again. He cannot enable the PVR Manager, cause it freezes when doing so. This happens when no pvr addon is installed and is an xbmc bug.
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First of all, thank you very much for the audio passthrough Smile
DTS MA and Dolby TrueHD, as well as FLAC 5.1, now work nicely, feeding an Onkyo TX-NR5009.

Video decoding still has limits, as mentioned. From a couple of 40Mb/s files with MPEG-2 video (with 422 yuv), only one or two plays. CPU usage goes up to 120% (this a dual-core A6-5400K).

AMD A6-5400K - Asrock FM2A75 PRO4-M - 8GB DDR3-1866
xubuntu 13.10 - 3.13-rc8
You have that kind of cpu usage with vdpau activated?
MPEG-2: Still busted with my card (HD6950) - this is with 3.13-rc8 and Mesa git pulled 12/01.

I get a hardlock with a white screen now - x264 content still fine. I will attempt to get some useful debugging output and update the bug tracker asap!

@doctor64: check https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71796
(2014-01-14, 11:29)arkadi Wrote: First of all, thank you very much for the audio passthrough Smile
DTS MA and Dolby TrueHD, as well as FLAC 5.1, now work nicely, feeding an Onkyo TX-NR5009.

Video decoding still has limits, as mentioned. From a couple of 40Mb/s files with MPEG-2 video (with 422 yuv), only one or two plays. CPU usage goes up to 120% (this a dual-core A6-5400K).

AMD A6-5400K - Asrock FM2A75 PRO4-M - 8GB DDR3-1866
xubuntu 13.10 - 3.13-rc8

Those limitation I mentioned on the first page. We still have a huge performance issue there, yes. I miss approx 33% speed in the OSS vdpau. For your concrente videos, please open Bugs at bugs.freedesktop.org.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
Do you have some clip somewhere that crashes for you and i could download? I have some hd mpeg2 samples but those work with my card with vdpau and i get no crashes/lockups. Its true, the biggest one uses ~75% CPU - its a clip with 70 Mb/s stream taken from here (big buck bunny, first segment):

http://www.w6rz.net/

All of the other few i downloaded worked with low cpu usage.
I have a Radeon HD 8570D - thats the IGP in the A8-6500 APU - in fact its a (twice) modified 6xxx series model, uses the same r600 driver and i compiled mesa, kernel, xf86-ati from git (yesterday i think).
First of all, thanks for this howto. xbmc works like a charm except the audio.
I've got a amd e350. I wanted to reinstall linux + xbmc so i followed this howto step by step. The problem is that the audio lags about 1.5 seconds behind in the video's. It doesn't matter what the source is. I tried various options but i can't find a solution. The TV isn't the problem because my other partition works normally. I hope someone could help me.

Here are my debug messages:
dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6749964/
xbmc.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6750405/
Xorg.0.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6750241/
dpkg -l |grep mesa: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6750301/
(2014-01-14, 15:03)gradinaruvasile Wrote: Do you have some clip somewhere that crashes for you and i could download? I have some hd mpeg2 samples but those work with my card with vdpau and i get no crashes/lockups. Its true, the biggest one uses ~75% CPU - its a clip with 70 Mb/s stream taken from here (big buck bunny, first segment):

http://www.w6rz.net/

All of the other few i downloaded worked with low cpu usage.
I have a Radeon HD 8570D - thats the IGP in the A8-6500 APU - in fact its a (twice) modified 6xxx series model, uses the same r600 driver and i compiled mesa, kernel, xf86-ati from git (yesterday i think).


Guys you clearly all know, that the performance of the UVD decoder is not yet ready. It's quite clear that such files - nowhere on a real bluray image - make such problems. Please let's concentrate on the basics, which is: mpeg-2 needs to be solved. We can start the digsize benchmark war when everything is done :-)
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
(2014-01-14, 15:19)gangkill13 Wrote: First of all, thanks for this howto. xbmc works like a charm except the audio.
I've got a amd e350. I wanted to reinstall linux + xbmc so i followed this howto step by step. The problem is that the audio lags about 1.5 seconds behind in the video's. It doesn't matter what the source is. I tried various options but i can't find a solution. The TV isn't the problem because my other partition works normally. I hope someone could help me.

Here are my debug messages:
dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6749964/
xbmc.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6750405/
Xorg.0.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6750241/
dpkg -l |grep mesa: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6750301/

13:55:58 T:140567694534400 NOTICE: fps: 23.976024, pwidth: 1280, pheight: 688, dwidth: 1280, dheight: 688
13:55:58 T:140567694534400 NOTICE: Display resolution ADJUST : 1920x1080@ 30.00 - Full Screen (16) (weight: 0.251)

Post: DISPLAY=:0 /usr/lib/xbmc/Xbmc-xrandr | pastebinit It seems you are running 1080i resolution and should rather switch to 720p
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(2014-01-14, 12:12)gradinaruvasile Wrote: You have that kind of cpu usage with vdpau activated?

Yes, for the MPEG-2 422 files, all around 120% XBMC-CPU. H.264 (bluray and HDTV captures) are fine with around 10% CPU.

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