Solved Gotham on Ubuntu 14.04: Missing video options?
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Hi. Recently from Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04 and in the process XBMC was upgraded to Gotham. My HTPC is an older i3-530 with built-in Intel graphics (HD 2000 I think). I've noticed that after the upgrade, XBMC's advanced video rendering options appear to be missing (no longer is there an option to toggle VAAPI/VDAPU, etc).

Video still seems to render okay in general. Hard to say if CPU usage has remained unchanged. I've seen some occasional studder on 1080p movies though I cannot rule out a network hiccup in those cases (video is streamed over NFS from another server on the LAN).

Is this indicative that XBMC is using a different video driver than before? If so, what driver(s) should I be using? I don't recall explicitly installing any customized drivers when I installed Ubuntu 13.x...

Thanks.
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#2
enable expert settings mode, then go to the acceleration tab
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#3
Many thanks!

I'd been using the Aeon Nox skin which doesn't appear to support changing the settings mode (didn't see it with Aeon MQ5, either, though I didn't spend much time looking). Switched back to Confluence, found the menu option, changed to expert settings and now the 'Acceleration' menu item appears in the other skins also.
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