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Any issues/reason to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.10?
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No - not a single one. I personally will skip 14.10 completely. 14.04 LTS + mesa utopic + kernel mainline + libva wsnipex ppa is more than utopic alone would give us.
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You are running an outdated vaapi driver (see the howto on howto update to 1.4.x). Other than that the logfiles don't show anything.
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Read some pages back - I described howto do it.
Kernel you can use 3.17.1 from ubuntu mainline. This is the version I am currently running.
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He asked for a "reason" :-)
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Hi All,
Awesome thread!
Please forgive my ignorance here. I'm a long time HTPC nut and pretty experienced with XBMC/ Kodi but I'm very new to Linux.
Reading as much of this thread as I can digest it seems that if you have a system with Intel Graphics older than Haswell then you can forget achieving anything near decent deinterlacing quality for video sources (in particular broadcast TV) as you're limited to Bob and on top of that if the source is MPEG2 the results of this are even worse than you would normally expect due to bugs in the drivers?
Is that about right or have I missed something important? Just asking because my main HTPC is pre HSW but I'm achieving pretty decent video quality running Gotham under Windows at present but was hoping to move it to a Linux distro as part of the learning curve (maintaining WAF is a good incentive to learn FAST!)
If my understanding is correct then I'll hold off until I upgrade the hardware however if I've misunderstood I'd be really grateful if some kind soul would correct me.
Many thanks,