Asus 1015B HD Videos VA API on Debian + XFCE (Xubuntu )

[helixum]

Hi

I installed today xubuntu on my new Asus eeePC 1015B
and have only this one mayor issue left.
(Sorry for the double post the first one was in the wrong section)

Could not get the HD playback wokring right now.
in the 1015B there is a ATI HD6250 build in

I installed the properitay driver 11.7 Catalyst.
(followed the Ubuntu Natty Installation Guide from http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide)

Then I installed libva1 from PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/catalysthacks
and its modified vlc player. Also installed http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbe...8.0-1_i386.deb

When playing a Video my CPU goes to 100 so I guess the hardware acceleration does not work..

vlc --ffmpeg-hw
VLC media player 1.1.9 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x8845914] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setenv("ORBIT_SOCKETDIR", "/tmp/orbit-cmp", 1)
Warning: call to srand(1312055660)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:5447): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
libva: libva version 0.32.0-sds2
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
xvba_video: XVBA_GetSurface(): status 2
[0x8cc793c] avcodec decoder: Using VA API version 0.32 for hardware decoding.
[0x88e0544] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0x3af14c0)
[0x88e0544] signals interface error:  /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]
number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

Xorg.log has no errors in it.
VLC has its option set to use Hardware acceleration.
What can I do?
Motr Details will be attatched as so as possible

[Kano]

vlc does not work correctly with vaapi. use mplayer vaapi or xbmc.

[helixum]

Thx

I was trying to build mplayer from source and get this : ERROR: you need VA API headers for this project
Iam not sure where to get the headers from for further ./configure

xmbc looks very nice but dont you thinkt it will be OVERKILL for my small eeepc ? just thinking of energy efficienc

[helixum]

Here are some more infos about my system

vainfo

libva: libva version 0.32.0-sds2
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA API version: 0.32
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.8.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD

Thats how I check if my gpu is redendering the move or by cpu

watch -n 1 aticonfig --odgc 

Default Adapter - AMD Radeon HD 6200 series Graphics 
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)
           Current Clocks :    276           533
             Current Peak :    276           533
  Configurable Peak Range : [276-276]     [533-533]
                 GPU load :    0%

and a detailed output of what happens when I use vlc

http://pastebin.com/jL2cKctN

[Kano]

xbmc is definitely the best choice. But of course you need libva headers if you want to build vaapi support for it. the problem with mplayer is a bit different, it does not detect libva due to a bug in the libva debian package, so you have to force vaapi support or patch it. Well i do that with my script, but it also updates libva, so maybe just force vaapi if you dont want to update libva.