Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[pali]

can you add the instructions and requirement? or I just install all that in ppa n mplayer ready for vdpau acceleration?
btw, thank you so much

just add PPA to system and for vdpau install 3.11+ kernel (e.g package linux-image-generic-lts-saucy from precise-updates)

[bajo]

@bajo, @wheelloader:

New recipes for intel xorg driver and linux firmware packages were created. Just wait until launchpad start creating, building and compiling packages...

@pali: Thank you. I will try your ppa today and give you feedback about the progress.

[pali]

I created recipe also for nouveau xorg driver. So after some time launchpad will sync sources from git freedesktop and start creating daily builds...

[wheelloader]

just add PPA to system and for vdpau install 3.11+ kernel (e.g package linux-image-generic-lts-saucy from precise-updates)

hi, I just update my kernel to -lts-saucy. Installed your ppa and smplayer+mplayer. but when I try to play the video, it seems no hardware acc because the video so laggy.
here is the log

fariz@wheelloader:~/Documents$ mplayer -vo vdpau 2.mp4
MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing 2.mp4.
libavformat version 53.21.1 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und
VIDEO:  [H264]  1920x1080  24bpp  23.976 fps  2369.0 kbps (289.2 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 major_brand: mp42
 minor_version: 0
 compatible_brands: isommp42
 creation_time: 2011-11-26 15:20:36
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 53.35.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.32.2
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 151.9 kbit/10.77% (ratio: 18992->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 53
Unsupported PixelFormat 81
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vdpau] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12 
A:   4.4 V:   2.1 A-V:  2.295 ct:  0.054   0/  0 140% 60%  1.8% 50 0 


           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

A:  21.9 V:  11.6 A-V: 10.316 ct:  0.057   0/  0 130% 54%  1.7% 276 0

[pali]

try: mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau 2.mp4

[Bushido_root]

New PPA is here: https://launchpad.net/~pali/+archive/graphics-drivers

It contains daily builds of libdrm, mesa and xorg radeon driver.

Can you support ubuntu 12.10 as well? Would be really appreciated~

[pali]

Can you support ubuntu 12.10 as well? Would be really appreciated~

12.10 will be unsupported by canonical very early and then they also turn off every PPAs for 12.10... And it does not make sense to support 12.10. 12.04 is LTS. I downgraded from 12.10 to 12.04. So I have no motivation for 12.10.

[Bushido_root]

12.10 will be unsupported by canonical very early and then they also turn off every PPAs for 12.10... And it does not make sense to support 12.10. 12.04 is LTS. I downgraded from 12.10 to 12.04. So I have no motivation for 12.10.

Ah, fair enough, I might go to 12.04 myself instead of 13.10 (or 14.04).

[wheelloader]

try: mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau 2.mp4

I got alot of error,

any solution guys?

[Bushido_root]

I got alot of error,

any solution guys?

Can you paste the errors?

Make sure you have a video card that supports UVD2.2 (at least) or UVD3. You also need the libg3dvl-mesa package.
Install vdpauinfo, run it in terminal and paste the output to that as well.
I also suggest mpv player over mplayer. For one thing I'd say it's a very sane fork of mplayer with active devs.