2015-02-02, 00:51
Hi Fritsch,
I have an old radeon RS780 integrated on my motherboard, which is UVD2. I know you have said that UVD 2.2 is required for VDPAU support, but from kernel 3.18, the radeon driver now supports vdpau on this GPU according to http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature, so I thought I'd try it.
I downloaded 3.18.3 and installed it on my Ubuntu 14.10 installation. Dmesg now says "UVD initialized successfully", and Xorg.0.log says "VDPAU driver: r600", so I was hopeful that VDPAU might work with Kodi.
But when I run Kodi, I always get "required extension GL_NV_vdpau_interop not found", and it falls back to software decoding. According to a post here, this message means that the mesa libraries are too old, though they are version 10.3.2. So I installed Oibaf's PPA, which brought the version to 10.5, but it made no difference.
Is there another reason that I can't use VDPAU on Kodi with this GPU? Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you,
Mike
I have an old radeon RS780 integrated on my motherboard, which is UVD2. I know you have said that UVD 2.2 is required for VDPAU support, but from kernel 3.18, the radeon driver now supports vdpau on this GPU according to http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature, so I thought I'd try it.
I downloaded 3.18.3 and installed it on my Ubuntu 14.10 installation. Dmesg now says "UVD initialized successfully", and Xorg.0.log says "VDPAU driver: r600", so I was hopeful that VDPAU might work with Kodi.
But when I run Kodi, I always get "required extension GL_NV_vdpau_interop not found", and it falls back to software decoding. According to a post here, this message means that the mesa libraries are too old, though they are version 10.3.2. So I installed Oibaf's PPA, which brought the version to 10.5, but it made no difference.
Is there another reason that I can't use VDPAU on Kodi with this GPU? Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you,
Mike