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Hi,
I'd like to have VAAPI support (I have ATI Radeon 4550 and ATI proprietary drivers v. 8.723 in Ubuntu Lucid) with XBMC.
I also have libva installed with dev package (v. 0.31.0-1+sds13)
I compile latest SVN version (already tested v. 30318) and after configure I get:

Code:
[...]

  Optimization: Yes

  OpenGL:       Yes

  VDPAU:        Yes

  VAAPI:        Yes

  CrystalHD:    No

  VDADecoder:   No

[...]

Than I run "make" + "make install".
I check also ldd command output:

Code:
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00519000)

    libva-glx-0.31.0.6.so.1 => /usr/lib/libva-glx-0.31.0.6.so.1 (0x00110000)

    libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x008a0000)

[...]

but when a run XBMC a have no HW acceleration.

Digging in the log file:

Code:
41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744   DEBUG: CDVDFactoryCodec: compiled in hardware support: CrystalHD:no VDPAU:yes VAAPI:no

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video:  - Opening

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744   DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(special://xbmcbin/system/players/dvdplayer/swscale-0.6.1-i486-linux.so)

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744   DEBUG: Loading: /home/tode/XBMC-SVN/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/swscale-0.6.1-i486-linux.so

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Creating VDPAU(712x384, 28)

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE: vdp_device = 0xffffffff vdp_st = 0x00000001

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440   ERROR: (VDPAU) unable to init VDPAU - vdp_st = 0x1.  Falling back.

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Failed to get VDPAU device

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE:  (VDPAU) Close

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10

41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: ff-h264 - Opened

Where is my mistake?
I'm sure it has to work...
Please help!
Thanks,
the_bis

Try the daily SVN as there appeared to be some sort of a problem with earlier builds. The bug related to an error in "configure.in". I have similar hardware to yours (Radeon 4550HD) and r30362 works fine.

my1997golf Wrote:Try the daily SVN as there appeared to be some sort of a problem with earlier builds. The bug related to an error in "configure.in". I have similar hardware to yours (Radeon 4550HD) and r30362 works fine.

Yes, it works!
xbmc-svn - r30387
libva1 - v. 0.31.0-1+sds13
libva-dev - v. 0.31.0-1+sds13

Thanks, Big Grin

the_bis

Hey guys,

I am having a similar problem as the thread starter.

I got a ATI Radeon HD 5450 and wanted to get VAAPI working with XBMC on Ubuntu Lucid.

cam shots of the screen:

I am not really sure if its really using the gpu to decode the material, but I think it is, because of the low cpu consumption. When I tried to decode a h264 file without vaapi there was about 30/60% pct load on a AMD Athlon 3800 x2.

I compiled xbmc from the sources, able see the VAAPI & VDPAU options in the video section, but I can't choose the VAAPI Render Path explicitly.
When I set it to Auto Detect the output of a 1080p video is completely messed up. The same with the other Render Paths.

To build xbmc with vaapi I used this little howto cause couldn't find something useful one the xbmc forums http://www.multimedia4linux.de/htpc/ati_video.html and downloaded/installed all .debs but the on for mplayer.
Additionally I installed the latest Catalayst from ATi (10.6)

I downloaded the latest release of xbmc via svn as proposed on the main download page.

I really would like to be able to play HD movies fluently. Smile

Has someone help or a yet not known forum post which points out that problem?

Thank you very much!

specs:

Code:
xbmc - Revision 31256

Linux hostname 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 19:31:57 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Catalyst 10.6

AMD Athlon 3800+ X2

2GB RAM

vainfo output:

Code:
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds6

Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0

libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so

libva: va_openDriver() returns 0

vainfo: VA API version: 0.31

vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA API - 0.6.11

vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints

      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointIDCT

      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointIDCT

      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

configure output:

Code:
------------------------

  XBMC Configuration:

------------------------

  Debugging:    Yes

  Profiling:    No

  Optimization: Yes

  Crosscomp.:   No

  target ARCH:  no

  target CPU:   no

  OpenGL:       Yes

  VDPAU:        Yes

  VAAPI:        Yes

  CrystalHD:    No

  VDADecoder:   No

  OpenMax:      No

  Joystick:     Yes

  XRandR:       Yes

  GOOM:         No

  MID Support:  No

  ccache:       No

  PulseAudio:   Yes

  HAL Support:  Yes

  FAAC:         Yes

  DVDCSS:       Yes

  Avahi:        Yes

  Non-free:     Yes

  ASAP Codec:   No

  Webserver:    Yes

  WebM support: No

  libRTMP support:      No

  Deprecated libdts:    No

  Deprecated liba52:    No

  External FFmpeg:      No

  External Python:      No

  prefix:       /usr/local

------------------------

Same problem. Looks very similar to your screen darude.

I think hardware decoding works in mPlayer outside of XBMC. I hope this issue gets resolved soon.

I'm trying sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer now. We'll see if that works.

Also, my log can be found here. http://gist.github.com/524693

It works now. I did ./configure --enable-vaapi and that's it.

I have no idea if that did it or not though.

This looks like a cool project.
http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauch...mer-vaapi/

the_bis

my1997golf

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darude

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