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- FernetMenta - 2011-12-13 10:14
Redsandro Wrote:Anyone else noticing graphic glitches? They are APU specific, I am not experiencing this on my other machines with stand-alone videocard.
If you toggle between fullscreen and window mode, there's a 'ghost-window' with graphic noise at the top left.
If XBMC freezes but the computer is still responding, you go to Ctrl+Alt+F[tty], login and kill xbmc, your tty turns to graphic noise. Cannot make a screenshot of that, but it's like distorted text.
These are not crucial, rather minor annoyances, but I thought I'd mention them in case they are in any way related to the more serious APU problems.
Do you have "sync playback to display" enabled? Currently this does not work on ATI platform and might be related to your observations. Maybe both problems have the same root cause.
- MarsianMan - 2011-12-13 10:42
FernetMenta Wrote:Do you have "sync playback to display" enabled? Currently this does not work on ATI platform and might be related to your observations. Maybe both problems have the same root cause.I have the exact same problem with XBMC freezing and I do not have sync playback to display enabled. I do not have any other ghosting or display issues. And XBMC ( for me ) only freezes when scrolling down the list of tv or movies a lot or randomly if some time has passed.
Does anyone know if Eden will have the vaapi/xvba libraries enabled or will I have to compile from source again?
- wsnipex - 2011-12-13 11:08
MarsianMan Wrote:I have the exact same problem with XBMC freezing and I do not have sync playback to display enabled. I do not have any other ghosting or display issues. And XBMC ( for me ) only freezes when scrolling down the list of tv or movies a lot or randomly if some time has passed.
Does anyone know if Eden will have the vaapi/xvba libraries enabled or will I have to compile from source again?
Eden has vaapi enabled.
If you want xvba you can use FernetMentas branch. Binaries are in my PPA (see my sig)
- abudabi - 2011-12-13 11:21
Hmm.. seeing as Oneiric is out and newer kernels and newer ATI drivers... think it's maybe time for a new guide? If I have to reinstall I'd be lost
wsnipex: is your PPA used as a replacement for Lars' or nathan's pvr ppa? What's different in yours?
EDIT: Sorry.. Just read your description. So you're using XVBA and the others are using Libva? That it? What's the difference to the end user? (sorry of it's a stupid question but I'm not THAAT technical)
- fritsch - 2011-12-13 11:27
This is not used as a replacement. We want to get xvba tested, but have seen that most of the AMD users really want PVR support. Lars is informed and helped us yesterday with questions concerning pvr build specialities.
So Fernetmenta synced his branch again with pvr + xvba patches on top. Wsnipex created the ppa.
In order to use it: install fglrx 11.11 packages, which can be created by dem ati installer, add the mentioned ppa. You should remove all other ppa lists first.
After this: apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin should be enough. In System -> Video Playback enable XVBA and Use shared surfaces (experimental). If it crashes disable the experimental shared surfaces first, which needs more cpu power then, but works more stable with interlaced content.
Good for user: NO xvba-va-driver stuff needed. We do not got through libva anymore, we use direct XVBA API. This should be much more solid and more stable - but remember this is the first (small) call for testing :-)
- wsnipex - 2011-12-13 11:49
one of the biggest differences with xvba is that 24p works flawlessly, which doesn't with vaapi.
and as fritsch already wrote: no libva, xvba-va-driver stuff needed, so it (should) also work on lucid and maverick without problems.
I build packages for ubuntu >=10.04.
- erhnam - 2011-12-13 12:05
wsnipex Wrote:one of the biggest differences with xvba is that 24p works flawlessly, which doesn't with vaapi.
and as fritsch already wrote: no libva, xvba-va-driver stuff needed, so it (should) also work on lucid and maverick without problems.
I build packages for ubuntu >=10.04.
Are you sure about this? We're working on a new livecd with hardware accelerated support for AMD (Fusion) systems. The xbmc packages from the unstable ppa are used at this moment (Oneiric). The following packages for amd systems are installed:
Code:
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle libva1 libva-x11-1 xvba-va-driverIs this too much?
- wsnipex - 2011-12-13 12:18
erhnam Wrote:Are you sure about this? We're working on a new livecd with hardware accelerated support for AMD (Fusion) systems. The xbmc packages from the unstable ppa are used at this moment (Oneiric). The following packages for amd systems are installed:
Code:
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle libva1 libva-x11-1 xvba-va-driver
Is this too much?
I am talking about the XVBA branch. It only needs fglrx.
for Vaapi you also need libva1 libva-x11-1 xvba-va-driver.
- fritsch - 2011-12-13 12:28
As confusion is perfect for now.
Here is what we have:
Official xbmc (pre eden):
xbmc-> vaapi-> xvba-va-driver -> fglrx
New developed xvba branch (not in mainline, just available through git and ppa):
xbmc->xvba -> fglrx
So for release of official Eden Live CD everything what was needed before is still needed, include the xvba-va-driver and stuff...
We have to start a new thread in order to not confuse users anymore.
- erhnam - 2011-12-13 12:37
wsnipex Wrote:I am talking about the XVBA branch. It only needs fglrx.
for Vaapi you also need libva1 libva-x11-1 xvba-va-driver.
Thanks for clearing this up. We can leave it this way for now.