[mythtv-users] mythtv and intel on CPU graphics

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 01:27:11 UTC 2012


On 14 June 2012 12:52, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:

> previously it was using around 35% CPU with the Slim profile. BTW, the
> Sandy Bridge Core i3 has the HD2000 GPU, which I think is mainly fewer
> pipelines and maybe some other differences which are insignificant for
> me.

I don't think that matter for VAAPI, HD2000/3000 have the same
capabilities decoding-wise

>
> I'm using Gentoo (amd64), so mesa got pulled in by xorg-server. (mesa
> version 8.0.3, xorg-server version 1.11.4-r1) I also have kernel
> 3.4.0-gentoo (a bunch of Sandy Bridge improvements went into that
> kernel), libva-1.1.0,  libva-intel-driver-1.0.18,
> xf86-video-intel-2.19.0. I think those are the key packages. Other
> package versions may work but I haven't tested them.

sure.. but what does vainfo return...
VAAPI may just not have the required packages to properly work


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