On Fri, July 11, 2014 9:39 am, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > >> On Sunday 06 July 2014 20:23:04 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> In ticket #5232 libvdpau-0.8 is specified as a new version. I can >>> build it and 'make check' runs without problem. I'll update the >>> package if I can figure out how to test it. >>> >>> How do I know it it's being used and if it's working properly? >>> >>> >>> Anyone know? >>> >> >> There is no Intel driver for vdpau. You can however use vdpau-va-gl: >> https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl >> which is a libva backend for vdpau. You need to install libva, >> libva-intel- driver, vdpau and libvdpau-va-gl. You then select the vdpau >> backend by setting the environment variable: VDPAU_DRIVER="va_gl" >> >> >> I use this approach with my Intel chip, because mplayer only supports >> vdpau. > > I finally got around to this and it worked fine. Thanks Ragnar. > > > Now, how to add it to the book? AFAICT, there is only the github > version. I can download a .zip file from there, but I'm sure the md5sum > will change. I can create a tar.xz version on anduin easily enough. The > last change was > > It uses cmake -- the only driver for xorg that does. Probably not a big > deal. But it seems to want to install in /usr/local even if > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/xorg is specified. I can investigate that > later. It only installs libvdpau_va_gl.so{,.1} anyway so a simple cp would > work for that. > > mkdir build cd build cmake .. make make check cp -av libvdpau_va_gl > $XORG_PREFIX/lib/vdpau/ > > > echo "export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl" >> /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh > > Also 'make check' only works in an X environment. > > > There are two issues: > > > 1. Where to put it? I can just add it to the libvdpau section or I can > create a separate section. I lean toward the libvdpau section. > > 2. Should I create a separate tarball? The last change was June 17, so > it is being updated. I lean toward just presenting the url and adding a > note about changing md5sums. > > -- Bruce > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > >
Hello Bruce, Just found a copy of libvdpau on freedesktop's website: http://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/vdpau/libvdpau-0.8.tar.gz Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
