On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:43:59 +0000, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:43:42 +0100 > gimli <gimli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Two things to mention about vaapi : >> >> 1.) Use xf86-video-intel-2.15.0 > > Do you mean at least 2.15, or are there problems with later versions > like 2.17? > >> 2.) Forget sxfe in combination with vaapi. sxfe plays bad tricks with >> the stream and is not able to do a clean reinitialize of the output >> when the stream is changing. > > Another issue is compositing. This is the future of window management > and some people like (OK, tolerate) GNOME 3 and even Unity, so saying, > "Don't use compositing" isn't good enough long term IMO. On my Ion > 2-based nettop I can watch video in GNOME 3 OK, but I'm not sure vsync > works with it OK on my NVidia 8200-based HTPC. I don't mind using xfce4 > on that for now, because I don't use it for much else. But I've got two > other machines with Intel graphics on which I'd rather use GNOME 3 than > xfce4 and still be able to watch video without tearing, and I haven't > managed that so far :-(. This issue you have to clearly bug at the intel developers at freedesktop.org. > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
