2013-10-04, 09:39
Gotta say a great big shout out for these developments. Well done guys!
I have been following xvba-testing for some time on my Linux Mint 13 (based on ubuntu 12.04) laptop which has a Radeon HD 6600M video chipset and fglrx. Kernel is 3.2.0. I don't really watch a lot of media on the laptop unless I am away from home on holiday. But it is fun to have a test machine which has Gotham.
So is there an easy way to get the radeon vdpau stuff working on this setup, or would it require a more up to date kernel, in fact perhaps the whole distro?
Secondly all my media players in the house have nVidia graphics (for very good reason when I see the shagging around with the fglrx drivers, sheesh) - but I have been running xvba-frodo on them because of it's updated vdpau support. They are also based on ubuntu 12.04 (specifically mythbuntu). What should my future be with these machines? Should I cahnge from xvba-frodo - if so to what? bearing in mind I am not ready to change them to gotham yet.
I have been following xvba-testing for some time on my Linux Mint 13 (based on ubuntu 12.04) laptop which has a Radeon HD 6600M video chipset and fglrx. Kernel is 3.2.0. I don't really watch a lot of media on the laptop unless I am away from home on holiday. But it is fun to have a test machine which has Gotham.
So is there an easy way to get the radeon vdpau stuff working on this setup, or would it require a more up to date kernel, in fact perhaps the whole distro?
Secondly all my media players in the house have nVidia graphics (for very good reason when I see the shagging around with the fglrx drivers, sheesh) - but I have been running xvba-frodo on them because of it's updated vdpau support. They are also based on ubuntu 12.04 (specifically mythbuntu). What should my future be with these machines? Should I cahnge from xvba-frodo - if so to what? bearing in mind I am not ready to change them to gotham yet.