Kodi 14 not supporting GPU with VAAPI
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Compiled form source --with-ffmpeg option
Ubuntu 14.04.1
fglrx15.201 x64

configured with vaapi support in the internal options of kodi for all render methods
vainfo returns
libva info: VA-API version 0.36.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.36 (libva 1.3.0)
vainfo: Driver version: AMD MMD 1.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileH264Baseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD

What's wrong? why is kodi rendering with my CPU and not my GPU and more importantly how do I fix this?
no, I can't use another version, they're too resource intensive and there are dependency conflicts between preq package versions for higher verisons of kodi and preq packages for my video driver.

There was a brief era where my video card and audio setup were all playing nice with ubuntu and kodi and it was around the time 14 LTS got released; but after a few kernel updates and package updates and kodi v15, it all went to hell again because suddenly my gpu was 5 years old.
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No support for fglrx - their vaapi is massively broken and has multi threading issues. A 5 year old gpu (E350 or E450) should perfectly run fine with the OSS drivers and vdpau, though.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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