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it disables kms (kernel mode setting) which all oss drivers need: nomodeset
It additionally overwrite the framebuffer which is radeon kms to a vesafb: ideo=uvesafb:mode_option=1366x768-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap
So, yeah - you shot it dead through the kernel.
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I switch to use the main line XBMC and there is a horizontal line on the TV screen (near the top) especially when there is fast moving scene. I switched back to the Fernetmenta version of xbmc and the horizontal line goes away. Has anyone seen this ?
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2014-04-21, 04:25
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-21, 04:28 by binaryjay.)
In my case, radeon crashes XBMC upon starting playback of an OTA broadcast through hdhomerun if vdpau for mpeg-2 is enabled. When not enabled, it will play but suck a large portion of CPU time. The other usual suspects for codecs can be accelerated fine, but it just hates the OTA 1080i mpeg-2 the hdhomerun feeds it.
This is on a thin client with a low power HD5450. On another machine with an A6 in it, it's fine. Kind of a shame because the thin client is just a single core atom that really could use the extra help. It worked fine with crystalhd when I was still using that in same machine.
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do you add my mesa ppa? dpkg -l | grep mesa | pastebinit
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@binaryjay: HD5450 has no UVD for decoding mpeg-2 it's done via shaders. Those are not multi threading safe. That bug is already filed at freedesktop. So keep it disabled.
@Endevaour79: Are you sure, that you have pm-utils and consolekit and udisks and upower installed?
@jkl555: Update your /etc/init/xbmc.conf file to match this trusty howto, which will disable backing store.
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Yes fritsch, all newest version..
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What happens, if you run it from command line: udisks --mount /dev/sdX ? (replace X)
udisks --dump
upower -d
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The patch also works in 32 bit. You need to patch and build yourself oft course.
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Does anyone have a list of GPUs that crash on mpeg2 decode? I have a 7870 and 90% of what I watch is OTA TV (1080i, 720p). I am debating whether the switch over to the OSS driver is worth for me.
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720p is most likely h264 and 1080i, too - most of the time SD TV is 576i - but there are some mpeg-2 1080i left.
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As fglrx never accelerated mpeg-2 you can easily use the OSS drivers and (if it's not working disable mpeg-2 there too).
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