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2011-01-01, 02:34
A simple question:
For the new XBMC 10, does the Ubuntu PPA use a build with VA-API support?
I had assumed that it did since that's one of the major new features listed in the change-log but now I've heard some people say it's not included.
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Search for vaapi in the log, if you have debug logging turned on it will tell you if it's compiled in.
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if I have debug logging turned-on? Who maintains the PPA, can't they just say yea or nay?
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I don't know how to debug the log and I'm not expecting an answer right away. So I think my question is perfectly reasonable. As I said in my original post: This feature is 'advertised' as being part of the new version yet some people say it's really not. So perhaps the specific answer needs to be documented somewhere, e.g. on this support forum?
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based on comments in the other "I can't get VAAPI to work" threads I'm going to guess that VA-API is not enabled in the current Ubuntu build, v10.0.
I can't test it myself because I blew-up my install trying to follow other people's suggestions about switching to the xorg-edgers PPA...
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I installed XBMCLive Dharma and VAAPI libs (for AMD). I had no VAAPI option in the XBMC menu. Then I installer XBMC from Lars Op den Kamp's PPA. It gave me the VAAPI option in the menu, and it works. So no, I don't think VAAPI is enabled in official XBMC Dharma.
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2011-01-07, 08:32
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-07, 09:10 by Robotica.)
Probably there is a technical reason not to enable VAAPI by default?