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2013-11-12, 15:40
(This post was last modified: 2013-11-12, 15:42 by fritsch.)
Currently, you don't even have vdpau running, cause your system seems to be messed up with some vdpau_gl driver.
You can easily install Lubuntu full installation, remove pulseaudio and libasound2-plugins and just install the other packages from this Howto.
This howto does not heal "broken" installations, of course.
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Clarification needed
@fritch and all other devs: Firstable I very appreciate your work, but I (probably others too) need some clarification about the future of this project.
Is there a risk that this project becomes a "dead end" like the XBMC-xvba?
I currently have a reasonably running system based on AMD and XBMC-xvba, but now I'm stick a particular Linux/ fglrx / XBMC releases and cannot upgrade any more.
Will your patches/extensions/drivers go into the official Linux and XBMC releases?
If yes, what ?
Ubuntu 14.04?
XBMC 13 ?
what mesa version, will it be part on oficiall Ubuntu distribution?
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a) All of our patches will be in xbmc v13 - most is already in and it will be fully working at the end of this month
b) With kernel 3.13 everything, that is now manually needed (mostly the hda bitstream audio patch) will be in mainline.
c) The mesa stuff will be in mesa 10.0 and will be usable from there
the main difference to xvba is, that this time - we use ordinary VDPAU - which works on mplayer, vlc, xbmc, youtube, flash, ...
XVBA had to die cause AMD did not care for it and we were left back with broken drivers and missing features.
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@TheCritter: Do one, i will link it - I like to support thinking people - but I don't support lazy ones.
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@fritsch: thanks for the clarification !