Catalyst Omega 14.12 is out.

[Nille]

VAAPI is a new, native implementation and does not use the wrapper.

Seems to be a lie.

From a backtrace

#5  0x00007fffa4b575c6 in VAContext::BeginFrame(unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/libAMDXvBA.so.1

Kodi/XBMC blacklists AMD cards for VAAPI at the moment so not sure.

With fritsch we tryed to get it working. Currently the problem is that the vaapi is not thread save from amd. thats exactly the same problem that xvba has 2 years ago.

but vaapi works on xbmc 13.2 but since 14 the new decoder is multi threaded.

[fritsch]

We did that for AMD and flgrx in kodi: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/...303a3386cbd565

with ~/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings>
<video>
<forcevaapienabled>true</forcevaapienabled>
</video>
</advancedsettings>

In order to not directly segfault the driver, you need: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/5909 (half of the patch is for mesa vaapi, but the latter two are needed for fglrx)

With that you can watch 8 frames until the decoder (ffmpeg) and the render (kodi) force the driver into deadlock :-)

[xpris]

Depending on your distribution, you need to install libva. On Ubuntu, just install

sudo apt-get install vainfo

It will pull all dependencies including libva and you can then type "vainfo" and see if it works.

For Gstreamer acceleration (Firefox, Totem) you also need

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-vaapi

If you use VLC, you need to manually activate it in the settings at Input/Codecs.

Thanks, VAAPI now working fine but not in Flash in Firefox (still software). Is any way to fix? I create /etc/adobe/mms.cfg but still not working. Maybe this can work? : http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comme...r_accelerated/
Anyone tested this on new driver?

[Gerii]

Thanks, VAAPI now working fine but not in Flash in Firefox (still software). Is any way to fix? I create /etc/adobe/mms.cfg but still not working. Maybe this can work? : http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comme...r_accelerated/
Anyone tested this on new driver?

Yes, you also need the OverrideGPUValidation = 1 in your mms.cfg. However it crashes if I want to set the video quality to 1080p. (It also crashes on my laptop with Intel graphics when skipping through the video, so there's probably a reason why it's deactivated).

I still sometimes get video corruption in KDE if I set the Composite type to OpenGL unfortunately. Hoped that this driver would fix that but unfortunately not.

[eydee]

Has anyone else tried wine? Does it work on any card or any distro using Catalyst Omega?

[plasmasnake]

Has anyone else tried wine? Does it work on any card or any distro using Catalyst Omega?

I got it to work after following these instructions: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...87/comments/20

[eydee]

I got it to work after following these instructions: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...87/comments/20

I didn't mean the installation conflict. I meant 3D acceleration in wine. Have you tried launching games? Do they display correctly?

Trying wine 1.7.x I found no 3D games are working at all, not even opengl games. Only some 2D/UI elements are displayed, textures are missing etc. Even games like PvZ aren't displaying correctly.

[Kano]

Well in theory Bioshock 1 worked with pure wine 1.7.29+fglrx 14.12, but somehow it lost focus and the res change did not work. Did not search for special hacks.