Intel VAAPI howto with Leia v18 nightly based on Ubuntu 18.04 server
(2015-07-12, 20:06)fritsch Wrote: Introduction
While watching a SD(!) video, that is accelerated by VAAPI, e.g. mpeg-2 or h264, click the film role and choose: Deinterlace: Auto (Never set this to ON it will harm for everything that is not interlaced) Deinterlacing-Method: VAAPI-MCDI or VAAPI-MADI (Sandybridge) and VAAPI-BOB (BYT), Scaling Method: Lanczos3 Optimized and choose save for all files. Remember to do this only in combination with the above "scaling above" for 20%. This Lanczos3 Optimized filter is too heavy for BYTs, here you might - depending on the file - choose Bilinear.

It is obviously clear, that you won't see the VAAPI-MCDI settings when you play a video that is software accelerated only.

Last week I build my new config, where in the past I was using nvidia ION2 hardware nowadays I switched to skylake intel graphics. Even tough it is working OK, I am having doubt the VAAPI is working. As per quoted part of the howto above I am missing the VAAPI options as deinterlace method.
At this moment I am still using the 1.7.0 driver, I am planning to upgrade, but as far as I read the explanation it should work (besides the pixels being incorrect).
I downloaded the H264 mov file in SD from the sample set:
https://kodi.tv/media-samples/
http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/

And further I have made the required logs:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/18614605/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/18614612/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/18614617/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/18614639/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/18614644/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/18614663/

I see a relative high CPU usage, where in the past with an atom I was on 20 to 30% while watching a movie I am now more regularly on 50% (on a proc which is multiple times faster than the atom)
(Had a atom D525 and now skylake 6300)

The kodi I am using is of a couple of days ago, but I haven't seen any commits which have something to do with VAAPI.
Hope you can help me.
Now I am going to upgrade the intel driver to 1.7.1 to fix the incorrect pixels.
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