Or you can build everything from git to get the latest commits. I build mesa, kernel, drm for Debian 64 bit from git with checkinstall, no chrooting required. Only real issue is getting the 64 and i386 build dependencies right since most dev packages are not multiarch.
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Getting VDPAU working through 14.04
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You can run this PPA on 14.04, no issues right now
Needless to say, this sort of mixing requires that you know what you are doing-and that you fish downloaded packages out of /var/cache/apt/archives and save them in some organized way so rollback versions can always be found. I've done this for many years now with few more issues than the ones that come up with alpha releases anyway.
I've had VDPAU support on my systems and used it on system images running on single-core machines to play 1080p video since it first became available for radeon, at first using a Red Hat package as a tarball to extract to get the necessary libraries before libg3dvl-mesa was packaged as a .deb anywhere I knew of. Worked fine all the way back to the first DRM-next kernel to support it, with just one bug then and now: 1080p AVCHD files from my camera usually play just fine, but occasionally crash the GPU so a reboot is needed to get OpenGL running again. This never happens with mp4 files containing normal H264 streams, there is something almost but not properly supported in the files my camera makes. Nvidia's blog and cards won't support those files at all, while Radeon with VDPAU plays them most of the time on every r600/Evergreen card I've tested. Normal H264 playback is fantastic, even on a 2300MHZ AMD Athlon 64 single core.
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TheVDPAU drivers have been added to the official 14.04 repositories (nouveau, r600, radeonsi so far).
Code:apt-get install libvdpau1-drivers-mesa
Code:VDPAU_DRIVER=r600 #or nouveau/radeonsi LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...a/+bug/1002224
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Originally posted by elapsed View PostWasn't that reverted later?
Seems to have been reenabled.
At least it works fine on a fresh 14.04 install over here.
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Originally posted by Zapp! View Posthttp://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=...685608598fa229
Seems to have been reenabled.
At least it works fine on a fresh 14.04 install over here.
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Originally posted by Zapp! View PostTheVDPAU drivers have been added to the official 14.04 repositories (nouveau, r600, radeonsi so far).
Code:apt-get install libvdpau1-drivers-mesa
Code:VDPAU_DRIVER=r600 #or nouveau/radeonsi LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...a/+bug/1002224
So happy they finally included it in a mainstream repo, OIBAF is awesome, but PPAs are generally annoying long-term.
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