[mythtv-users] 0.25 VAAPI does it work

[Angela]

>As a long time mythtv user I am unable to get VAAPI working. I am able to
view a mythtv bbc one hd recording in VLC using VAAPI (looks very nice) but
have never been able to playback the same or any recording using VAAPI in
>mythfrontend.

>Does VAAPI work?  Has anyone had success?  Does it work at all in 0.25. 
Any one seen it work with 0.26 beta?

Some say it works in 0.25. Haven't seen no information reading the list in
which setups it works.

I have a SandyBridge and worked with the intel-gfx devs to tackle my VAAPI
problem with mythtv. Upgraded to the latest DRI, kernels, etc.. Mythtv
always locked after 0.1 seconds. I moved to nvidia without complains.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51061
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2012-June/thread.html#18335
Problems about shaking depended highly on the recording, same where seen on
nvidia and as I later recognized are related to deinterlacing, which should
be in my case be used, also when playing deinterlaced material on an
interlaced tv. 

More interesting, mplayer worked and is using a specific revision of ffmpeg
(during compile it checkouts the specific revision). Mythtv uses an older
version. As far as I can remember 0.8.xxx vs. 0.6.xxx. ffmpeg is compiled
and statically loaded during linking (not depending on installed packages).

0.26 does not have updated ffmpeg code and as far as I know no updates to
fix VAAPI problems are included.
I hope the mythtv devs will pick up the upgrading of the ffmpeg source for
0.27. From reading the list, the upgrades were previously done by a dev
which does not join mythtv anymore.
Maybe a dev can comment on upgrading plans.

Cheers
Angela