In the past I have not built libvdpau-va-gl, but when I've used xine in a desktop term I've seem messages about not being able to use vdpau. So I thought I would try it on my main R600.
I've built and installed it, exported VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl, and /usr/lib/vdpau contains the various drivers, including libvdpau_r600.so, but when I run xine-ui from a term in X I see: This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.9. (c) 2000-2014 The xine Team. libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/r600_drv_video.so libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 vo_vdpau: vdpau API version : 1 vo_vdpau: vdpau implementation description : OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale backend for VDPAU vo_vdpau: maximum video surface size for chroma type 4:2:2 is 1920x1080 vo_vdpau: maximum video surface size for chroma type 4:2:0 is 1920x1080 vo_vdpau: maximum output surface size is 0x0 vo_vdpau: Failed to check vdpau get/put bits native capability : VDP_STATUS_NO_IMPLEMENTATION What makes me ask if this works is the r600_drv_video.so failure. The libs in /usr/lib/dri come from Mesa, and the r600 variant has been r600_dri.so since at least Meas-10.0. A past thread at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-962312.html?sid=a18767f591f1a172ac99cd39f4a5e6c5 suggests both that libvdpau-va-gl only works for HD4000+ radeons (this one of mine is a 3000), and also that it is no longer being developed. But since the library it is looking for does not seem to exist. I wonder if it works on *any* hardware ? In post #1054 from 'agd5f' (Alex Deucher, I think)) in a thread at phoronix - http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?50038-Updated-and-Optimized-Ubuntu-Free-Graphics-Drivers&p=406182#post406182 he says (in the context of ubuntu) "Don't use libvdpau-va-gl1. That emulates vdpau using va-api and gl for drivers that don't support vdpau. The performance will not be good. The radeon driver supports vdapu natively. Install the libg3dvl-mesa and mesa-vdpau-drivers packages. " That libg3dvl-mesa package appears to be the gallium drivers, mesa-vdpau-drivers is presumably the libraries which Mesa installs in /usr/lib/vdpau, libvdpau_{nouveau,r300,r600,radeonsi}.so All of this makes me suspect that libvdpau-va-gl is obsolete. But perhaps it is useful on some other hardware ? As to libvdpau itself, google finds references to nvidia drivers (not sure if those were for binary or the old xorg nvidia), so I suppose it might still be needed (my only nvidia card is on my ppc64 mac which is more or less defunct). ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
