2011-01-10, 20:24
I finally gave in and tried Opdenkamps PPA, as well. It installed it's own versions of the libva1 and libva-dev? Whatever it did, I now have VAAPI enabled in XBMC. Unfortunately, it has terrible h.264 compatibility. Besides the lack of deinterlacing it also stuttered and dropped frames like crazy on all my Sony AVCHD home videos as well as everything I had tried re-encoding through Handbrake (with both 'Normal' and 'High' Profile settings). A handful of downloaded HD movie trailers played fine, though. So it works but only with 'perfectly' encoded files.
Also, I can't remember if I mentioned this before... Using xvba 0.7.6 the 'vainfo' utility reports hw-accel for MPEG2 but with the newer 0.7.7 it does not. I thought I had read somewhere that ATI had dropped MPEG2 support from their driver so the new xvba maybe correct?
P.S. I tested all my h.264 files with both versions of xvba and the results were the same.
Also, I can't remember if I mentioned this before... Using xvba 0.7.6 the 'vainfo' utility reports hw-accel for MPEG2 but with the newer 0.7.7 it does not. I thought I had read somewhere that ATI had dropped MPEG2 support from their driver so the new xvba maybe correct?
P.S. I tested all my h.264 files with both versions of xvba and the results were the same.