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The new vaapi / libva packages are now in the ppa. Thanks to wsnipex.
Btw. Those only add kabilake / Apollo Lake support - this won't make kodi v17 magically decode hevc-10 bit. So for most users: no change at all.
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Hello,
I am not sure whether where to report this.
I have a Kodibuntu box with Haswell i3. After upgrading Jarvis to Krypton RC, HD videos would not start or crash Kodi. Looking around I found that both VAAPI and VDPAU was enabled. Disabling this solved the crash.
I have no idea how VAAPI and VDPAU got enabled. I cannot recall if I had such setting in Jarvis or not.
The question is, do we have a problem migrating Jarvis settings to Krypton? In my case, I seem to got bad defaults.
I had another setting-related issue: video post-processing got turned on, causing stuttering when playing ISO DVD images. Disabling it solved the problem.
I have no logs of the upgrade process. I can get logs now, if you would like to have a look, but I am afraid it is too late.
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Please read the first post, we cannot help you without the relevant logfiles.
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You don't seem to run this howto. I see Ubuntu 14.04 and a very old kernel / drivers, including vaapi 1.3.0
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Well yes - I installed latest Kodibuntu back then, and I keep updating since then, last time just before the upgrade. So this is anyone gets how keeps a Kodibuntu install running for some time..
Anyway, if I understand correctly, the issue is that Haswell will NEVER work with VAAPI, right? I don't miss that, actually. I only wonder if others might get the same problem when upgrading to Krypton.
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Not sure where you got that from ... we are all running Haswell happily with VAAPI and the original howto in here was written for HSW hardware.
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We need 0.39.2 of vaapi which 14.04 does not have. You can try wsnipex vaapi ppa.
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Checked just now, Kodibuntu is no longer supported. It seems I need to look for some other distro.
Thanks for the help.
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If you'd check the first post - you'd find an easy to do howto for 16.04
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