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

(2012-05-22 22:35)alexinthesky Wrote:  OK, I went back to the fglrx driver 11.12. here is the output of xbmc-xrandr :
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1001734/

Hmm, I don't see any problems there. Grasping for straws: Do you have a chance to try other outputs?

Quote:what I mean is when I turn on my projector

How is your setup? multi-screen setups may not work correctly.

(2012-05-24 08:38)FernetMenta Wrote:  

(2012-05-22 22:35)alexinthesky Wrote:  OK, I went back to the fglrx driver 11.12. here is the output of xbmc-xrandr :
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1001734/

Hmm, I don't see any problems there. Grasping for straws: Do you have a chance to try other outputs?

Hi FernetMenta,

thank you for jumping in,
yes I have tried the VGA output also and the behavior is identical.

I also tried the modified xbmcbuntu from xbmcfreak.nl.
it has the kernel v3.0 and fglrx v8.960 drivers from xedgers...no luck

Unfortunatly I cannot boot any of the openelec live imgs because the kernel they are bundled with need a CPU with PAE and mine has not.

There is still 1 thing that I cannot do is have a system with kernel 3.2 + fglrx v8.960 because Xorg fails to start ( as I mention is post #665 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...bug/990436 ).

Since the problem comes from XVBA::CreateSession ( XVBACreateDecodeProc from the libXvBAW.so.1 library ), I tend to think something is no working correctly in the fglrx driver ( libXvBAW.so.1 is included in the package), but I don't really if it is useful to fill in a bug report@AMD, and more important how to describe the problem to them....

I don't know where to keep digging, so I will have to stick to noHD video on my system for now... a pity.
.... unless you guys have more suggestion to make?

Alex

Alex,

Can you send me the output of `/usr/share/fglrx/atigetsysteminfo.sh'. Execute from local shell. That's what AMD requests when you open a bug report.

(2012-05-24 08:45)FernetMenta Wrote:  

Quote:what I mean is when I turn on my projector

How is your setup? multi-screen setups may not work correctly.

It's a single screen. FWIW, I left the system on overnight without xbmc running(just ubuntu desktop), and today it's still OK.

(2012-05-24 11:11)FernetMenta Wrote:  Alex,

Can you send me the output of `/usr/share/fglrx/atigetsysteminfo.sh'. Execute from local shell. That's what AMD requests when you open a bug report.

Sorry I was not at home till now.
here it is,
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1005483/

hope you can get something out of it.

I found a way to replace kernel in the openelec usb stick image, so as soon as I find time I will also try this .

Alex

Hi all .

I started to have a very strange issue :

Here is my setup :

Foxconn E350 ( with HD6310 video card , setup by this original post) --> Denon avr 831 --> Toshiba aquos

Everything was working fine until last week where all of the the sudden i started to see that once every 20-50 min the HDMI lose signal .
Then in order to restore picture and audio i have to do "something" click on backspace , pause and play , and etc.. ( had to generate action ) .
I first suspected the xbvr but this is not this issue as the "freeze" happen also on the main xbmc screen and not only when playing video .

Here is what i tried and failed to resolve the issue :

Disable acceleration
Put HDMI switch between AV receiver and pc
Reboot receiver
reboot pc
disable power saving on receiver
disable power saving on TV
Disable up-scaling on Receiver
shutoff then turn on tv

I also checked and cpu do not spike when it get to "sleep"


How do i bypass the issue :

Pause + play
Backspace
power off AVR and power on
reboot computer



I am not sure where to continue and what to do .
Any advise here ?
How do i make sure the computer do not put the display on sleep ? as i am not familiar on how to do this in terminal at ubantu

Can you try to connect the PC directly to your TV, without the AV receiver?
Also a debug log would be a start to look into this.

Found the issue . it was with the xorg.conf file .
Not sure why it started all of the sudden after 3 months of using my system though .

I had to vi the file and add :

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "blank time" "0"
Option "standby time" "0"
Option "suspend time" "0"
Option "off time" "0"
Option "dpms" "false"
EndSection

Hi there!
I've read about the freshly merge from AudioEngine branch into the main trunk.
Is there any timeline in which this xvba branch will get it to? When is the next time you great guys plan to pull latest changes form XBMC trunk?

thx 4 info