[fritsch]

As you said above, that you don't know how to manage a linux system I'd say: no.

Keep what you now have. There is nothing missing for your hw in terms of kodi -

[Dennisreneholm]

Okay, thanks alot for your help!

[bluzee]

The i965-va-driver failed to compile for Trusty in the ppa. Is it resolved by just upgrading mesa then?

[fritsch]

New Mesa is needed in any case. The i965-va-driver would be of interest for anyone running vaapi on linux as version 1.7.1 fixed a long year bug with artefacts after decoding, basically it degraded the picture quality heavily - so ping your distribution to get that one updated anyways. Also in terms of postprocessing 1.3.0 does not have what kodi can use (MCDI / MAADI and so on).

[bluzee]

There is a 1.7 version i965-va-driver in the mpv ppa for Trusty.

ppa:mc3man/mpv-tests

I installed that and the mesa from...

ppa:wsnipex/mesa

The black screen with VAAPI appears to be solved. I agree it would be better to upgrade the whole system, unfortunately I live in Canada and unless you live in a major city internet data is hard to come by and very expensive. I just can't keep up with upgrades. Kodi 17 is quite nice though and worth the download.

[fritsch]

Jep - that's right! Thanks for the heads up.

[vbat99]

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:wsnipex/vaapi
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:wsnipex/mesa

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:wsnipex/vaapi

For both afterwards:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install i965-va-driver

sudo reboot

Thank you. This fixed my issue on upgrading to 17.3 and SD content stuttering.
WAF back to 97%. LOL