AMD's UVD2-based XvBA Finally Does Something On Linux

[Kitof]

An earlier post in this thread by a HD2XXX owner hinted that he might be in luck but he never said he did get it working but I think he tried without the hotfix fglrx?

Yes, you're right, it's me

Unfortunalty, I upgrade to Fedora 12, and i've to wait for the Xorg 7.5 / 1.7.x support to make new tests.

Maybe in fews days with Catalyst 10.1 ?

[Kano]

Don't expect anything before U 10.4 release. Fedora was never suppported.

[Kitof]

Don't expect anything before U 10.4 release. Fedora was never suppported.

I never wait more than 1 month to get my new release supported, so I remain optimistic

[droidhacker]

I never wait more than 1 month to get my new release supported, so I remain optimistic

If you don't mind making a big mess with installed packages, you can do something really crazy, like what I did to get the intel psb drivers working on F12... downgrade X to the F11 packages.

I had basically two choices; F11 or F12 with X downgraded to what's from F11. I would have gone with F11, except I couldn't get the wireless card working there and it was easier to downgrade X in F12 than to track down the reason.

[bibi]

Hello,

I have a problem with my installation : I cant use xvba. I used Kano script to install everything.

vainfo :

/Downloads$ vainfo 
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds4
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: 0.31
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA API - 0.6.4
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointIDCT
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointIDCT
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD

Mplayer (that's the same with all my movies)

 mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi Hamburger.Hill.DVDRip.\[H264.He-Aac.\{Fr-Eng\}.St\{Fr\}.Chaps\].mkv 
MPlayer SVN-r30302-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing Hamburger.Hill.DVDRip.[H264.He-Aac.{Fr-Eng}.St{Fr}.Chaps].mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC/MPEG4/LC/SBR), -aid 0, -alang fre
[mkv] Track ID 3: audio (A_AAC/MPEG4/LC/SBR), -aid 1, -alang eng
[mkv] Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) "Piste de pr?sentation", -sid 0, -slang mis
[mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_VOBSUB), -sid 1, -slang fre
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [avc1]  704x368  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Ubuntu Karmic, radeon 4670, fglrx 8.66.10.

Any ideas ?

Bibi

[Kano]

Did you use 9-12 hotfix?

[bibi]

Just did, no change.
I'm gonna try to install everything again.

Bibi

Edit : still the same but when i try to install hwdecode i get this

checking for old libVA API 0.29... no
checking for VAAPI_X11_DEPS... yes
checking for VAAPI_GLX_DEPS... yes
checking for VDPAU... yes
checking for VDPAU/MPEG-4 support... no
checking for XvBA... no

[DivineGrace]

Just did, no change.
I'm gonna try to install everything again.

Bibi

Edit : still the same but when i try to install hwdecode i get this

checking for old libVA API 0.29... no
checking for VAAPI_X11_DEPS... yes
checking for VAAPI_GLX_DEPS... yes
checking for VDPAU... yes
checking for VDPAU/MPEG-4 support... no
checking for XvBA... no

When you switched to 9.12 w/hotfix, did you update libamdxvba1 package as well?

[Kano]

You can write that test differently too

if [ "$LOGNAME" = gbeauche ]; then
 echo checking for XvBA... yes
else
 echo checking for XvBA... no
fi

[bibi]

Well, i'll try later, when everything will be more mature... (vaapi available in ffmpeg, mplayer and so on).
The 9.12 hotfix broke the play of video in xbmc (blue screen), so i had to reinstall 9.10...

Bibi