How to Install XBMC PVR Xvba for AMD/Nvidia/Intel GPUs

Not immediately... Especially since there's no (or only very basic) UVD support in the opensource driver.

Will take quite a while.

@thctlo:

thnx for your tips! i´ve tried an bios update yesterday, but still same issues on usb3.0!
i found the firmware for the usb3.0 controller, but i don´t know how to update in linux?! the firmware update program is for windows! any idea? maybe it runs in wine?
how did you made the updates?

also thnx for the tip with the kernel, i will try it!

New Version available: 2:11.0~git20120324.1656-0800300
- rebase: 99% Eden + PVR
- XVBA: complete redesign
- lower CPU usage on low end systems, e.g E-350, E-450

(2012-03-25 12:06)wsnipex Wrote:  New Version available: 2:11.0~git20120324.1656-0800300
- rebase: 99% Eden + PVR
- XVBA: complete redesign
- lower CPU usage on low end systems, e.g E-350, E-450

Is it still needed to use your version on the E-350 (my HTPC) ?
As the final EDEN states:
"And now even AMD devices are supported for GPU video decoding in Linux to some extent, thanks to the inclusion of VAAPI." (http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/03/24/xbmc-11-0-eden/)

Eg, is the xvba support in XBMC Eden final as good as in your build?



Regards,

There is no xvba support in any stable xbmc version.
It exists a wrapper for xvba, which is not anymore developed since June last year. With vaapi and this wrapper the eden release uses the UVD of the AMD card.

We had important reasons to develop our xvba only version. But you can give it a try and compare yourself, concerning cpu/load, stability, 24p stuff and so on.

Ah you see the "to some extent" in the original message?

(2012-03-25 15:51)djvdthemaster Wrote:  

(2012-03-25 12:06)wsnipex Wrote:  New Version available: 2:11.0~git20120324.1656-0800300
- rebase: 99% Eden + PVR
- XVBA: complete redesign
- lower CPU usage on low end systems, e.g E-350, E-450

Is it still needed to use your version on the E-350 (my HTPC) ?
As the final EDEN states:
"And now even AMD devices are supported for GPU video decoding in Linux to some extent, thanks to the inclusion of VAAPI." (http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/03/24/xbmc-11-0-eden/)

Eg, is the xvba support in XBMC Eden final as good as in your build?



Regards,

it's working better than before, 50% cpu use with 720p files, but over100% with 1080p files.
So XVBA is still the best that happened to this little AMD APUs!!!!

I have to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for XVBA!!!! to fritsch, wsnipex and whoever is involved!


....but right now i've got the problem, that after the update, my music files won't be played.
I only hear noise over the HDMI output. Videos are fine, stereo and dolby digital, only music files are concerned.
i've got an ASUS EeeBOX 1021 with an E-450 Processor.
i'm not shure if it's an Eden problem, does xvba even affect the hdmi audio?

@XanomalieX:
Do you have libmad0 installed?

Ah, the main contributor and superior codemonkey is Fernetmenta. Whithout his coding skills, no xvba :-)

(2012-03-25 19:25)fritsch Wrote:  @XanomalieX:
Do you have libmad0 installed?

Ah, the main contributor and superior codemonkey is Fernetmenta. Whithout his coding skills, no xvba :-)

i have to check, but i haven't installed it knowingly.
is libmad0 the problem or the solution?!

... and as far as libmad0 is about mp3, stuff i have the same problem with wav and flac files

Install it and retry. It is part of the howto, though :-)

(2012-03-25 20:25)fritsch Wrote:  Install it and retry. It is part of the howto, though :-)

yeah i see it's part of "step 1", so i did install it.