On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:43:59 +0000, Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:43:42 +0100 gimli gimli@dark-green.com 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.
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