2015-02-10, 08:58
My dilemna:
I just got a new AMD A8-7600 with integrated R7 graphics PC. Comes with Windows 8.1 pre-install ... I hate it! I installed Kodi 14.1 on it and I can't use HW acceleration without having to install a dozen 'unofficial' software bits including an unofficial version of Kodi with DSPlayer integrated (which needs AV-Splitters and LAV filters apps to be installed and configured and fiddle with playercorefactory etc ... what a mess!).
My question is: Do any of you out there have issues with the latest AMD offerings to run HW acceleration in Kodi under Linux/Ubuntu OS? Should I stick to Windows and DSPlayer or move across to Ubuntu (I have 4 other Kodi installs under Ubuntu in my house ... but none are AMD)? Do the current AMD graphics/sound drivers under Linux support all the video/sound codecs that Windows based drivers do (DXVA2 etc supported under Windows).
I just got a new AMD A8-7600 with integrated R7 graphics PC. Comes with Windows 8.1 pre-install ... I hate it! I installed Kodi 14.1 on it and I can't use HW acceleration without having to install a dozen 'unofficial' software bits including an unofficial version of Kodi with DSPlayer integrated (which needs AV-Splitters and LAV filters apps to be installed and configured and fiddle with playercorefactory etc ... what a mess!).
My question is: Do any of you out there have issues with the latest AMD offerings to run HW acceleration in Kodi under Linux/Ubuntu OS? Should I stick to Windows and DSPlayer or move across to Ubuntu (I have 4 other Kodi installs under Ubuntu in my house ... but none are AMD)? Do the current AMD graphics/sound drivers under Linux support all the video/sound codecs that Windows based drivers do (DXVA2 etc supported under Windows).