[the_bis]

Hi,
I'd like to have VAAPI support (I have ATI Radeon 4550 and ATI proprietary drivers v. 8.723 in Ubuntu Lucid) with XBMC.
I also have libva installed with dev package (v. 0.31.0-1+sds13)
I compile latest SVN version (already tested v. 30318) and after configure I get:

Code:

[...]
  Optimization: Yes
  OpenGL:       Yes
  VDPAU:        Yes
  VAAPI:        Yes
  CrystalHD:    No
  VDADecoder:   No
[...]

Than I run "make" + "make install".
I check also ldd command output:

Code:

    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00519000)
    libva-glx-0.31.0.6.so.1 => /usr/lib/libva-glx-0.31.0.6.so.1 (0x00110000)
    libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x008a0000)
[...]

but when a run XBMC a have no HW acceleration.

Digging in the log file:

Code:

21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744   DEBUG: CDVDFactoryCodec: compiled in hardware support: CrystalHD:no VDPAU:yes VAAPI:no
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video:  - Opening
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744   DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(special://xbmcbin/system/players/dvdplayer/swscale-0.6.1-i486-linux.so)
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003679744   DEBUG: Loading: /home/tode/XBMC-SVN/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/swscale-0.6.1-i486-linux.so
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Creating VDPAU(712x384, 28)
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE: vdp_device = 0xffffffff vdp_st = 0x00000001
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440   ERROR: (VDPAU) unable to init VDPAU - vdp_st = 0x1.  Falling back.
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Failed to get VDPAU device
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE:  (VDPAU) Close
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
21:41:25 T:2891287408 M:1003581440   DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: ff-h264 - Opened

Where is my mistake?
I'm sure it has to work...
Please help!
Thanks,
the_bis

[my1997golf]

Try the daily SVN as there appeared to be some sort of a problem with earlier builds. The bug related to an error in "configure.in". I have similar hardware to yours (Radeon 4550HD) and r30362 works fine.

[the_bis]

Try the daily SVN as there appeared to be some sort of a problem with earlier builds. The bug related to an error in "configure.in". I have similar hardware to yours (Radeon 4550HD) and r30362 works fine.

Yes, it works!
xbmc-svn - r30387
libva1 - v. 0.31.0-1+sds13
libva-dev - v. 0.31.0-1+sds13

Thanks,
the_bis

[darude]

Hey guys,

I am having a similar problem as the thread starter.

I got a ATI Radeon HD 5450 and wanted to get VAAPI working with XBMC on Ubuntu Lucid.

cam shots of the screen:




I am not really sure if its really using the gpu to decode the material, but I think it is, because of the low cpu consumption. When I tried to decode a h264 file without vaapi there was about 30/60% pct load on a AMD Athlon 3800 x2.

I compiled xbmc from the sources, able see the VAAPI & VDPAU options in the video section, but I can't choose the VAAPI Render Path explicitly.
When I set it to Auto Detect the output of a 1080p video is completely messed up. The same with the other Render Paths.

To build xbmc with vaapi I used this little howto cause couldn't find something useful one the xbmc forums http://www.multimedia4linux.de/htpc/ati_video.html and downloaded/installed all .debs but the on for mplayer.
Additionally I installed the latest Catalayst from ATi (10.6)

I downloaded the latest release of xbmc via svn as proposed on the main download page.

I really would like to be able to play HD movies fluently.

Has someone help or a yet not known forum post which points out that problem?

Thank you very much!

specs:

Code:

xbmc - Revision 31256
Linux hostname 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 19:31:57 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Catalyst 10.6
AMD Athlon 3800+ X2
2GB RAM

vainfo output:

Code:

libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds6
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA API version: 0.31
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA API - 0.6.11
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointIDCT
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointIDCT
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

configure output:

Code:

------------------------
  XBMC Configuration:
------------------------
  Debugging:    Yes
  Profiling:    No
  Optimization: Yes
  Crosscomp.:   No
  target ARCH:  no
  target CPU:   no
  OpenGL:       Yes
  VDPAU:        Yes
  VAAPI:        Yes
  CrystalHD:    No
  VDADecoder:   No
  OpenMax:      No
  Joystick:     Yes
  XRandR:       Yes
  GOOM:         No
  MID Support:  No
  ccache:       No
  PulseAudio:   Yes
  HAL Support:  Yes
  FAAC:         Yes
  DVDCSS:       Yes
  Avahi:        Yes
  Non-free:     Yes
  ASAP Codec:   No
  Webserver:    Yes
  WebM support: No
  libRTMP support:      No
  Deprecated libdts:    No
  Deprecated liba52:    No
  External FFmpeg:      No
  External Python:      No
  prefix:       /usr/local
------------------------

[Maletor]

Same problem. Looks very similar to your screen darude.

I think hardware decoding works in mPlayer outside of XBMC. I hope this issue gets resolved soon.

I'm trying sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer now. We'll see if that works.

Also, my log can be found here. http://gist.github.com/524693

[Maletor]

It works now. I did ./configure --enable-vaapi and that's it.

I have no idea if that did it or not though.

This looks like a cool project.
http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauch...mer-vaapi/