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Fritsch pointed me to the fix, switching off Compiz fixes all my issues.
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Hello,
It looks like you guys are working really hard on getting hardware acceleration working. I am thinking about buying a AMD fusion system and have been having trouble working out if the hardware acceleration is at a point where it's worth buying a fusion board.
I have no problem compiling xbmc from source etc. So I was hoping if someone could tell me if the hardware acceleration is at a point where it can be used for 1080p playback?
Sorry if I am asking a question that's already answered somewhere else, in that case my google skills are not what they once were!
Thanks
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Thanks for the info Rainer ! I'll try to look into it. I might bother you with some questions later if it is not a problem :-)
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anyone have a download link to the latest pre-eden/eden beta live cd that I can install on a hard drive for an ION and or Fusion system. Seems the new test ones out there do not work. I am still using a year old xbmc build.
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Hello. 1st post in the XBMC forums. I have followed this thread for the last 50-60 pages trying to wrap my head around XMBC and the various pieces required to make it work on the AMD/Radeon platform. I am a Unix sysadmin by trade and have a good bit of experience with Redhat, but virtually all my experience is with headless clients...haven't run X in ages. All of this ppa, .deb, apt stuff is new for me and I am a total video/audio/xmbc noob.
I recently bought a Foxconn Barebones R40-A1. Its got a AMD E-350 with a Radeon HD6310. Add 8GB of RAM and a 500GB Drive. My goal is to replace an outdated fileserver, hopefully run a few VM's with KVM, and run XMBC (so no xbmc live for me).
For those of us that are installing 11.10 (oneiric), I assume Mtroi's guide (on page 67 of this thread) is still the most relevant?
A few other questions:
1. Is xvba a replacement for libva? I'm gathering from these threads that xvba is still in development?
2. If #1 is true, eden is going to be released with xvba (not libva)?
3. Mtroi's guide installs XMBC from a ppa that is not the same "official" team-xbmc ppa. What is different about that one?
4. Admittedly, i've been moving forward with portions of Mtroi's guide. So far, i've installed the catalyst drivers 11.12 and libva (but not xbmc). I downloaded VLC and have been testing 720p and 1080p files encoded with H264. 720p plays ok in VLC. 1080p...not so much. From what I gather though, thats to be expected in VLC, but that XBMC (at least the one from the nathan-renniewaldock ppa) is much better. Am I getting this right?
Sorry, lots of questions. I'm trying to be very methodical about understanding the cause and effect relationships between all of these driver/pieces of software, etc.
Lastly, this thread seems to have slowed down a bit recently. Is this still the best place for info for ubuntu/amd/radeon/xbmc users? Maybe its just the holidays?
Thanks,
Parker