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

I did a complete installation in virtualbox and later moved it to a real hardware. Somehow i got virtualbox guest packages installed, now when trying to uninstall, apt wants to pull in a lot of dependencies:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/838753/
Any idea how to get rid of virtualbox modules without pulling in so much pkgs?
I could delete them but looking for more elegant solution.

It wants to pull in actual Xorg video drivers. Why are you concerned?

You also gain 4 MB of free space .

fritsch Wrote:wsnipex is currently switching homes. But there was no update to the tree, it was also not rebased yet.

We are waiting for AMD to update libxvba in order to make other progress to the current state.

Reading this again made me curios, what kind progress are you talking about? :O

Hi there!
First many thanks to FernetMenta for all his work on VAAPI and XvBA.
I successfuly compile XBMC pre11 with VAAPI on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with LXDE since autumn 2011 on my ASUS E-350 htpc and now tried the XvBA branch. Actually I notice no difference in HD playback. Both ran smooth, except small random jitters that I notice at slow camera moves or the end credits where the letters make tiny jumps every 5 to 20 seconds.
The only difference with XvBA is, that I can activate the option "adjust display refresh rate to match video". This delays the start of the video as expected, but the "jumps" are now much smaller and thus harder to recognize. Yet they are not gone. If I activate this option on vaapi-built then HD-playback-speed is like waves of fast and slow decoding...very bad.

So why do I read here that XvBA playback has better performance - the small jumps are still there, even with the above option. so maybe thats not a performance issue? and maybe my performance is the same for VAAPI because I compile myself?? How do you exactly recognize the difference in performance? Often, 24p is mentioned, but I never had problems with that either. Or is it only for exact 24p, because most vids say 23.976 fps.
Anyone an idea?

Here is my compile string; notice I have to disable pulse for XvBA only, otherwise no digital sound available:

I've followed this guide to the letter and video playback is perfect. However, every time I start my projector to use xbmc, I'm always back at the login screen. I don't have a keyboard or mouse hooked up since it's in the living room, so I SSH from my ipod and restart the system and then it starts the xbmc session perfectly and automatically.

I can't ever make this happen when I'm just sitting there and it's never crashed watching movies. It seems to happen when it's idle.

I've disabled the weather, PVR stuff, basically everything I can think of. Any ideas?

I'm running this on a nettop w/ an E350, streaming files from my main pc(wired), 4 gigs of ram, 120 gb hd, hooked up via toslink audio and hdmi for video, 11.11 drivers, ubuntu 11.10 full install.

Can you provide a xbmc.log?

Did you activate any idle actions, meaning: put system to suspend or exit after some hours? It also could be that your ubuntu tries to put your computer into standby (gnome power manager oder unity settings).

Let`s see the logfiles.

Thanks for the quick reply fritsch. I just turned it on after being idle for over an hour and it was working fine. The only change I made was to disable the RSS feed and weather. Does this sound plausible? If I'm lucky that's all that was wrong.

I'll check it again this evening when I have time and if it's misbehaving I'll make sure that ubuntu isn't trying to suspend or something funky like that.

fritsch Wrote:Can you provide a xbmc.log?

Did you activate any idle actions, meaning: put system to suspend or exit after some hours? It also could be that your ubuntu tries to put your computer into standby (gnome power manager oder unity settings).

Let`s see the logfiles.

Everythink works fine with the PPAs except the AirPlay support. I did install as described in the first post on a XBMCubuntu. First removed the active version and just installed from the https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/xbmc-xvba repository.

I noticed apt-get automatically recognized that libshairport was unused and could be removed.

Is there a way to enable this again on the xvba release? When can you expect the xvba support be merged into the stable branch?

Regards Andreas

magny Wrote:Everythink works fine with the PPAs except the AirPlay support. I did install as described in the first post on a XBMCubuntu. First removed the active version and just installed from the https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/xbmc-xvba repository.

I noticed apt-get automatically recognized that libshairport was unused and could be removed.

Is there a way to enable this again on the xvba release? When can you expect the xvba support be merged into the stable branch?

Regards Andreas

well, actually it should be enabled, but I cannot test it myself.
Does it work after you install libshairport0?

om my debian wheezy airplay is working fine.
i noticed you need the avahi daemon also ( avahi-daemon )

for me this works, hope this helps someone.

apt-cache policy libshairport1
Installed: 1.2.1~git20120110.aeb4987-1