VAAPI blue skin: the solution

[bean]

Well, weird. VA-API indeed shows me MPEG2. Testing more I found that the cause for WAY better 1080p performance is that I used the mplayer I compiled myself not the mplayer shipped with Karmic.

[gbeauche]

I have no idea where to post this. I hope people will find this here and find it useful.

As reported at http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1385589 and http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showp...&postcount=498 I can run mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi but then everyone's face / skin is blue. Very nice effect

You want mplayer -vf rgb2bgr=swap,scale -vo vaapi -va vaapi

This is fixed with libva 0.31.0-1+sds11. There is a another bug with vaDeriveImage() though. However, since the necessary SW stack and updates to exploit this are not public yet, so you won't notice that.