> Then maybe at least provide PPA with Mesa builds with enabled VA-API support?
You can get it here: https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu /graphics-drivers/ > enabling this would mean moving libva to main, and it'd also pull in ffmpeg and a plethora of other packages.. This make sense, but expose anyway a limitation of current way of packaging in Ubuntu. Who need it is forced to install it from my PPA (or elsewhere), which is not supported by Ubuntu, and may not be what the user really want. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1481832 Title: VA-API implementation for gallium missing Status in mesa package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: [needs-packaging] mesa Please include "gallium_drv_video.so" which is a native va-api state tracker for mesa(gallium). URL: http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/ URL: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi/ #intel/vdpau License: http://www.mesa3d.org/license.html Notes: Currently (as of today) in ubuntu 15.10 nightly amd64, va-api(vaapi) on AMD/Ati radeon opensource display hardware is using a vdpau backend 0.7.4 by Splitted-Desktop Systems (wrapper) on gallium r600. Although its possible and probably preferred (better performance less copying) to use a native implementation which mesa(gallium) 10.4 and higher delivers in a form of a va-api state tracker. vainfo #current default setup vdpau backend libva info: VA-API version 0.38.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_37 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 0.38 (libva 1.6.0) vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems VDPAU backend for VA-API - 0.7.4 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG4Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG4AdvancedSimple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Baseline : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD The preferred setup needs that "gallium_drv_video.so" binary which is currently unavailable in ubuntu and debian. As an example I added a package/binary from archlinux. Copying the gallium_drv_video.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/ and symlinking(correcting) the libLLVM-3.6.so to arch-linux default /usr/lib/ location and exporting a variable was enough to make it work! https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libva-mesa-driver/ #example by archlinux export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=gallium vainfo #preferred setup using gallium va-api from arch-linux (symlinked libLLVM-3.6.so to /usr/lib) libva info: VA-API version 0.38.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: User requested driver 'gallium' libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/gallium_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 0.38 (libva 1.6.0) vainfo: Driver version: mesa gallium vaapi vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG4Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG4AdvancedSimple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Baseline : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD I guess this binary "gallium_drv_video.so" might be available as a compile flag in the current mesa implementation... intel and vdpau has their own current implementation in a separate libva branch http://cgit.freedesktop.org/vaapi/libva/ ? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1481832/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
