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

Anyone know why mine gives a blank video screen when showing accelerated video with xbva on.

I'm on 12.04 with the ubuntu installed amd driver. and the Eden stable build.

When I turn off xvba then everything works.

Do you run it out of a full ubuntu session? If yes, please use a direct xbmc session. You can logout and find the
xbmc session, cause it does not play nice with compiz and stuff.

If all of the above is not the case, please supply a logfile with debugging turned on.

(2012-05-09 19:36)fritsch Wrote:  Do you run it out of a full ubuntu session? If yes, please use a direct xbmc session. You can logout and find the
xbmc session, cause it does not play nice with compiz and stuff.

If all of the above is not the case, please supply a logfile with debugging turned on.

Yeah but it' doesn't always happen. I tried on a 1080p sample that tends to do it and it worked both on top of unity and as a xbmc session. I'll try and recreate it again and keep the logs running?

I didn't think it would be a problem since I clicked enable "Unredirect Fullscreen Window" in Compiz Config Settings Manager.

See the first page of this thread.

I did this when I first setup Ubuntu 12.04 i thought it told compwiz not to interfere with xbmc

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM..._with_XBMC

there is a reason for this line on the first page:

NOTE: Compositing window managers (e.g. compiz, gnome-shell) do not play well with XBMC
If you have issues, please first disable compiz. If you want unity you can try unity-2d.

I had this setup on a 1.8ghz fusion & Hulu Desktop HD playback just wasn't smooth.
Which APU should I get to ensure smooth HD flash playback?
Faster 2core or should I go 4 core to be safe?

Thanks.

@nitrogen

this is off-topic! this thread only handles xbmc with xvba, like it is written in the first post! the hulu-desktop has nothing to do with xbmc!

Im trying to do a fresh install of 12.04 and successfully install the latest catalyst 12.04 driver. This is actually a mythbuntu install since I like the light nature of mythbuntu and like the default WM.

As a test I just wanted to play something in VLC and cannot for the life of me get smooth playback. My previous version of Mythbuntu is 11.04 and I think catalyst there is 11.7.

I have been reading about problems with 12.04 catalyst but does anyone have any insight as to what might be my problem? Anyone use myth versus regular Ubuntu? Should I use an 11.x catalyst version?

Thanks in advance

(2012-05-10 17:33)Nitrogen_Widget Wrote:  I had this setup on a 1.8ghz fusion & Hulu Desktop HD playback just wasn't smooth.
Which APU should I get to ensure smooth HD flash playback?
Faster 2core or should I go 4 core to be safe?

Thanks.

Well, then your doing something wrong, i'm running 1.6 fusion and everything is smooth play hd.
even when.
1) a download is running at 3.5MB/s ( what you seen in windows )
2) a extract is running of 1 of my series
3) and i was copying 200Gb for pc to mediacenter at 100MB/s+ ( what you seen in windows )

i think your setup is wrong..