[fritsch]

Force it to another resolution - but you can do that yourself. We are spamming 100 of thousands of people that use that thread :-)

try to change the refreshrate after it came up like this.

You can do the rest alone, I am sure.

[Manp]

changing resolution and/or refresh rate only seems to result in the same distorted image with an added black screen flicker.
but i agree, i'm spamming the thread now with my problem. i have to give you a big thank tho, your help is really appreciated!

[fritsch]

Ubuntu 14.04 will ship with vdpau! This is great news and much more positive than what we got last time from the news, see: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/.../changelog

We are currently talking with their maintainer to also include the deinterlacing patch. This would give us a perfect out of the box experience for gotham on Ubuntu 14.04

[Packet Loss]

Great news, well done guys!!

[pyrodex]

Great news! This will help so many people for simple installs.

[locomot1f]

this is great news!
XBMC - a household name

[gfisher]

Congrats! That not only helps xbmc, you have done the world a favor, making AMD gpu on *Ubuntu a better place.

[fritsch]

He did not reply yet concerning the "temporal", but yeah - even without it for beginners it will be great.

[fritsch]

Another good news: The last custom patch to use radeon vdpau was pushed to xbmc master. So basically the mainline repo should now be able to run correctly. You will only miss the proper Monitor Management, e.g. the SDL drop.

[eroth]

I've followed the howto in the first post, up to step 4 and found the config options to be missing. From what I can see, the mesa drivers don't seem to be loading, so I've gone back over the steps a few times with no change.

Any ideas?
dmesg - http://paste.ubuntu.com/7022966/
xbmc - http://paste.ubuntu.com/7022977/
xorg - http://paste.ubuntu.com/7022967/
DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo - http://paste.ubuntu.com/7022968/
dpkg -l |grep mesa - http://paste.ubuntu.com/7022974/

thanks

[fritsch]

What exactly does not work?

that one: DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo needs to be run as the very same user currently running xbmc.

You need to switch xbmc to "Advanced" or "Expert", see here:


(Of Course don't set it to VAAPI, choose VDPAU and the according settings (don't have a VDPAU machine running with me))

[eroth]

What exactly does not work?

Apparently, my eyes. I had settings set to Advanced,but skipped right over Expert.

One suggestion for the howto: The first option (if my assumptions are correct) is actually System->Settings->System->Video output and then "Vertical blank sync" value of "Let driver choose". I kept trying to find the video hardware option, which isn't available.

So, I believe it's working now with the option enabled. Thanks!

[fritsch]

Will fix. Thanks.

[Claudio.Sjo]

Ubuntu 14.04 will ship with vdpau! This is great news and much more positive than what we got last time from the news, see: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/.../changelog

We are currently talking with their maintainer to also include the deinterlacing patch. This would give us a perfect out of the box experience for gotham on Ubuntu 14.04

Wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3lDpkToKck

Great great great!

Now I have to figure out the addition of my remote's driver, but this is a minor!

[ORbit2]

Hello my first message here.

First a big thanks for al that cool work you are doing, I wish I could!

I am following this thread for quite some time now and it looks good aswell the latest news that 14.04 will have vdpau.

So I grabbed a old Harddisk and tried this how to.

I have installed on a asus e35m1 board ubuntu 13.10 x64, removed pulseaudio and followed this how to from point 4.
Works great except when I try to play 'big'(>10gig) HD movies it stops and the frames drop from 29 to 14 then continues and stops again etc.

Here my Debug logs:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/7026739/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7026745/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7026753/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7026754/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7026757/

glxinfo | grep -i interop
GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil, GL_NV_texture_barrier, GL_NV_vdpau_interop,
GL_NV_texture_env_combine4, GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vdpau_interop,

Unfortunately I do not know how to get qvdpauinfo, when I type this in the terminal I get something like, " Not found did you mean vdpauinfo perhaps? " while vdpauinfo is installed.