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Thanks! This solved all problems that - I thought- had to do with not fully matured VAAPI support on AMD's side (never bothered to look if it had anything to do with XBMC).

I used:
Catalyst 11.1...

By accident I just stumbled across this interview from yesterday with Terry Makedon (head of the catalyst team), were the answer is given:

How many people does it take to bring out monthly...

It seems that "posts that contain a URL will be sent to the moderation queue while you have less than five posts" is quite slow atm, but from (avoiding url) blogs amd com:

Jay Marsden: "The...

blogs.amd.com:

Jay Marsden: "The driver will be updated to support the AMD Radeon HD 6950 & HD 6970 by tomorrow Dec 16th."

bwat47, I don't know. From what I read here I gathered that non 'Evergreen' (UVD2) cards kind of do/did seem to work (saw some posts mentioning Xorg 1.8.2 and Catalyst 10.7). In the end I concluded...

I've been reading around here for quite a bit, trying to get my HD5550 to work under Linux with XBMC vaapi enabled. I tried a number of suggested combinations (different xorg and catalyst versions),...