Actually the package from Andrew does work. What is not needed are the packages from splitted desktop.
@RussianNeuroMancer: saw your bug report - I think you may be missing the last step below (system variables). Here's how I got vaapi to work on Natty / AMD64 / Catalyst 11.5 from x-updates: - Install libva1 and libva-dev after adding the x-udpates PPA https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates?field.series_filter=natty - use the latest xvba-va-video package (this is the equivalent of libvdpau in Nvidia), that provides the ATI XVBA backend to the VAAPI library, from here: https://launchpad.net/~rexbron/+archive/bugfixes (fixes a problem in splitted-desktop xvba-video package; do not use the one from splitted-desktop) sudo apt-get install xvba-video - add the following to /etc/environment (and then reboot) LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/dri LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=fglrx After this, vainfo output should show something like the below (note the fglrx reference): $ DISPLAY=:0.0 vainfo libva: libva version 0.32.0 libva: User requested driver 'fglrx' libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so libva: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA API version: 0.32 vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.7.8 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD This is working fine with XBMC. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/753443 Title: xvba-va-driver broken dependency To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xvba-video/+bug/753443/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs