2013-07-25, 07:54
Quote:I think I am gonna try and stick a tiny nvidia 610 card into my a6 based htpc now. Giving up totally on the amd. Never a driver where it all just works. Every release makes something work and then introduce back already fixed bugs again. The machine I have with a 610 card in it works every time.
I totally understand. Btw. we already have June - there won't be a 13.6 final driver.
@deadite66:
I am thinking into this direction, too. Currently I feel really sad to think about "dropping XVBA completely" after such a nice community came up and a whole lot was made working. But currently it looks like OSS + vdpau is the way to go. You can meet the devs in #radeon (Alex Deucher, Christian König) and talk with them directly about technical problems.
If you can create a howto on how to easily install and use radeon OSS / UVD from a standard Ubuntu System (kernel from Ubuntu mainline, relevant mesa (9.2 should have it) packages from a ppa, firmware files, libvdpau1) do not hessitate to start. While writing I see that not much is left :-)