Redsandro Wrote:Easy XBMC-VAAPI installation

This is awesome

I got an easy way of getting VAAPI to work with XBMC on my AMD Fusion A50M chipset (Zotac Fusion mainboard)

1. Install Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2

Download the image and use unetbootin to create a bootable USB stick. Install from there.

2. Fixes

This is beta-software (next week the full version comes out, maybe you don't need this anymore.)

Code:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

2b. Optional fixes

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
$ sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar
$ sudo apt-get remove liboverlay-scrollbar-0.2-0

3. Install VAAPI driver from Splitted-Desktop

New URL

Code:

$ wget http://www.splitted-desktop.com/static/libva/xvba-video/xvba-video_0.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i xvba-video_0.8.0-1_amd64.deb

4. Install Catalyst 11.8 drivers.
Run jockey-gtk and install the ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver. The (post-release updates) version doesn't work. Yet. Maybe it works when the final version of Ubuntu Oneiric comes out.

5. Install patched XBMC from lars-opdenkamp PPA

Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc-opdenkamp.list with following contents:

Code:

# RED 2011-10-08
# XBMC VAAPI patched natty repo

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lars-opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/lars-opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr/ubuntu natty main

Code:

$ apt-get update

The PPA will complain about missing key. Take the last 8 characters from the key ID and insert like so:

Code:

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8NUMHERE

Replace 8NUMHERE with the actual key ID that the complaining apt-get update provides.

Code:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install xbmc

5b. (optional) Check non-VAAPI playback
Movies already play back faster in XBMC due to the catalyst driver, but 1080 will probably not play back smooth yet. You can check this to make you extra happy when VAAPI works.

6. Verify correct installation of drivers

Code:

$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.32.0
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1

Error! Make a symbolic link like Robotica proposed:

Code:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so /usr/lib/dri/

Code:

$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.32.0
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA API version: 0.32
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.8.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileH264High               :    VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :    VAEntrypointVLD

Correct!

Code:

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6300 series Graphics
OpenGL version string: 4.1.11005 Compatibility Profile Context

Correct!

7. Start XBMC and enable VAAPI, disable VDPAU

Robotica provided a nice screenshot:
http://gaspo.dyndns.org/files/xbmc-settings-videos-playback.png

8. Start XBMC, ready for action!
Restart XBMC, and play your 1080p movie.




Now, if only someone knew a trick to make Adobe Flash play fluent fullscreen in the browser..

fritsch Wrote:I have the same problem.

I filed two bugs, which tell the "two last" problems for me with the Zacate platform:

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/11862 (hang in menu, etc.)
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/12015 (problems using newer ffmpeg, which should fix the stop in video and sound issues)

My system crashes very hard if this is happening, process gets defunc and not killable anymore

MaZZly Wrote:I tried your guide and could get it to work only if i
thnx m8

Quote:# tar -xjpf mplayer-vaapi-20110127-FULL.tar.bz2
# cd mplayer-vaapi-20110127
# ./checkout-patch-build.sh
patching file Makefile
(...)
Checking for VA-API ... no
Checking for VA-API (with GLX support) ... no
(...)
Config files successfully generated by ./configure --enable-vaapi --disable-vdpau !
# cd mplayer-vaapi/
# make install
install -d /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc/mplayer /usr/local/lib
install -m 755 -s mencoder /usr/local/bin
install -d /usr/local/share/man/man1
install -m 644 DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
cd /usr/local/share/man/man1 && ln -sf mplayer.1 mencoder.1
install -m 755 -s mplayer /usr/local/bin
# ldconfig

Quote:# ./mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi /home/sample.mkv
MPlayer SVN-r32819-4.6.1 © 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
/home/sample.mkv
Playing /home/sample.mkv.
libavformat file format detected.
[matroska,webm @ 0x2d3a880] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (dca), -aid 0, -alang eng
VIDEO: [H264] 1280x720 0bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Load subtitles in /home/
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffdca] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DTS)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...

Quote:# dpkg -i libva-dev_0.32.0-1+sds2_amd64.deb
dpkg: warning: downgrading libva-dev from 1.0.12-2 to 0.32.0-1+sds2.
(Reading database ... 226187 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libva-dev 1.0.12-2 (using libva-dev_0.32.0-1+sds2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libva-dev ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libva-dev:
libva-dev depends on libva1 (= 0.32.0-1+sds2); however:
Version of libva1 on system is 1.0.12-2.