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Yes - that would. Test it if you can.
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That's good news. Thanks very much. So all with 24p and dts-hd problems, please give the kernels of deadite66 a try.
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Didnt help, same problem. But one thing changed. With 3.16 i had black bordes on the left and right side and needed an pixel aspect ratio of 1.02 to get rid of them. Now SD works fine with a ratio of 1. HD still needs the other ratio.
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The reason is missing GL_NV_vdpau_interop. It will never work with kodi.
The interop is used as "interoperation" between vdpau and OpenGL to display the surfaces later on in kodi - which is OpenGL.
You can use non OpenGL players like mplayer, mpv or whatever.
Alternatively you can try xbmc Frodo - it has fallback code to use x11 pixmaps, most likely much too slow for your ancient card.
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Ok, thanks for the response. I was using Frodo, but I upgraded to Gotham and now Helix. It works OK with software decoding, just some occasional stuttering, but I thought that VDPAU may solve that.
So it seems that not all VDPAU implementations are equal :-(
For my own interest, is there something in the vdpauinfo output that tells you what is required or missing for VDPAU with Kodi?
I believe the RS780 was released in 2008 - old, but not really ancient! I really don't want to have to change my motherboard as it has a good processor and has been reliable. And I don't really want to get a new video card - it will probably make my HTPC system hotter which will make the fans turn faster & make more noise.
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Nope vdpauinfo does not tell that.
glxinfo will tell it. Kodi needs gl interop out of the named reasons. There is no other performant way to transfer the decoded surfaces to display without that for an OpenGL application. Everything else is a pure hackery.
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agd5f is still at 3.19-rc5 iirc, so will have bugs. hopefully he will update when the 3.20 merge window opens.
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I think I was wrong back in that old post.
A small stutter once every second? :-) or evey minute?
If you did not do already, upgrade to kernel to a 3.16.x as noted on the first page, this solves radeon's reference clock which is utterly broken in 3.13 kernel.
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