[mythtv-users] Ubuntu Will Not Enable Open-Source VDPAU Support

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Please check out the following article over at Phoronix:
>> >
>> > www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYwNzU
>> >
>> > It says that Canonical will not enable VDPAU driver support for
>> > open-source hHW-accelerated video decoding in Ubuntu 14.04. The reason
>> > cited is size; Mesa bloat.
>> >
>> > I wonder whether Mythbuntu will plug that gap.
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > mythtv-users mailing list
>> > mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> > http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>> > http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
>> > MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
>>
>> Probably not, but I'll defer to superm1 on this (although he's
>> currently on vacation I think). There are a few things to consider for
>> us to do this.
>>
>> 1) Work involved. We're already a small enough team as it is that
>> adding a large workload to us would be a problem. This is especially
>> true (as it could be considered unnecessary) since VDPAU is available
>> in the proprietary drivers. (But from the discussion it appears to
>> just be a build flag)
>> 2) The need. Are there a lot of people that would need/want this? (or
>> are we building them for 2 people (see ARM build discussion))
>> 3) Size of packages. While the link mentions it adding 8.5MB to the
>> live CD (which we couldn't do because we can only have things on the
>> Live CD in the official repos), what does that mean for archive size?
>> We're only allows X amount (I believe 3GB of space, which is for
>> source packages, binaries, and dependencies) on each of our PPA's, so
>> if building Mesa is going to be oversized, then that could put the
>> nail in the coffin.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas
>> _______________________________________________
>
>
> As a clueless end-user, I always build a front end with an Nvidia GPU as
> follows:
>
> 1) Install latest Ubuntu
> 2) Activate proprietary drivers
> 3) Install Mythbuntu-Control-Centre
> 4) Choose roles and run through video setup wizard
> 5) Enjoy.
>
> So from my perspective, this doesn't bother me.

But it might if you had an AMD graphics card, or were an open source stickler.

There _is_ a very long thread here with a howto.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174854