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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.

Keep everything as you have it. If it is fine, no need to change anything. Next time you are reinstalling, follow the howto :-)