I recommissioned my WIN7x64 workstation, which ran XBMC Frodo and Gotham just fine...even 40Mbps Blurays from a NAS, in to a XBMC media server.
It uses an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5GHz, on an Asus P5E with 4G Ram and a Radeon HD5770 vid card.
I tried XBMCbuntu - audio good, video lags badly on higher bitrates.( ATI Linux drivers no help)
I tried Openelec - video better, but still lags on BR's, audio whisltes and pops (common issue it seems)
So I just tried this method, followed the How-To in post 1 to the letter, and all seemed to go fine.
Except video still lags, even mid-rate .mkv's.
I had no errors during the install and config process, but the qvdpauinfo command failed (unrecognised),.
glxinfo | grep -i interop delivered the expected output.
vdpauinfo returned "cannot connect to X server" so I have a problem here...
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6548914/ dmesg after playing video dmesg =
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6548842/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6548877/ xbmc.log
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6548880/ xorg
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6548889/
rrf@FRED:~$ DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
No protocol specified
vdpauinfo: cannot connect to X server :0
You are trying to send an empty document, exiting.
The only area I could have strayed from the How-to, was when installing the mini iso Ubuntu 13.10, I selected Ubuntu Basic, SSH server, Samba server and Ubuntu Desktop as applications.
Was this my mistake?
Or will Linux drivers never be able to match the performance I achieved in Windows?
I see some previous posts with similar issues, so I should start there while I gather logs.