XvBA Segmentation Fault on ATI 10.7

[musturd]

Anyone that can help me to get this thing to build correctly?

I have the exact same problem that you have. I can't compile libva (after I patched) because of those errors in libtool. I'm also using Arch Linux.

I'd like to add that I tried using an older version of xvba-video (0.6.11), the one that's compatible with the libva in the Arch repos.
I did get vainfo to work; but I had an error on the h264 hwdecode-demo. And when I play any video with -vo vaapi (or vaapi:gl) -va vaapi the video shows a black screen and my cpu goes crazy.

I'm now using the current xvba-video (from the AUR) and thus I need to compile libva.

So this isn't a really helpful post, but think of it as me confirming your problems.

[gbeauche]

Anyone that can help me to get this thing to build correctly?

Probably make sure to have libtool 1.5.x (and .m4 dev files) or run libtoolize before autoreconf -vif ? Arch Linux packages are generally current though...

[markg85]

I have the exact same problem that you have. I can't compile libva (after I patched) because of those errors in libtool. I'm also using Arch Linux.

I'd like to add that I tried using an older version of xvba-video (0.6.11), the one that's compatible with the libva in the Arch repos.
I did get vainfo to work; but I had an error on the h264 hwdecode-demo. And when I play any video with -vo vaapi (or vaapi:gl) -va vaapi the video shows a black screen and my cpu goes crazy.

I'm now using the current xvba-video (from the AUR) and thus I need to compile libva.

So this isn't a really helpful post, but think of it as me confirming your problems.

just found this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...yst#Repository

That fixed my issue... but now i want to have the latest mplayer svn thus i lose va-api support again -_-

[musturd]

Probably make sure to have libtool 1.5.x (and .m4 dev files) or run libtoolize before autoreconf -vif ? Arch Linux packages are generally current though...

I think the arch package for libva was downgraded due to the green screen issue that effects one ATI card or something. Because I saw mark's post a didn't try the compilation again.

just found this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...yst#Repository

That fixed my issue... but now i want to have the latest mplayer svn thus i lose va-api support again -_-

This did not work for me.
mplayer-vaapi no longer goes insane on my cpu -- it just decides not to use vaapi.
The packages in this repo are definately better, though.

Here is my output for ./vaapi_h264 (there is an error)

$ ./vaapi_h264 
Display type 'x11'
Hardware accelerator 'vaapi'
[hwdecode_demos] VA display 0xdc3980
libva: libva version 0.31.1-sds1
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[hwdecode_demos] VA API version 0.31
[hwdecode_demos] 6 display attributes available
[hwdecode_demos]   VADisplayAttribDirectSurface     (get/---) min 1 max 1 value 0x1
[hwdecode_demos]   VADisplayAttribBackgroundColor   (get/set) min 0 max 16777215 value 0xffffff
[hwdecode_demos]   VADisplayAttribBrightness        (get/set) min -100 max 100 value 0x0
[hwdecode_demos]   VADisplayAttribContrast          (get/set) min -100 max 100 value 0x0
[hwdecode_demos]   VADisplayAttribHue               (get/set) min -100 max 100 value 0x0
[hwdecode_demos]   VADisplayAttribSaturation        (get/set) min -100 max 100 value 0x0
[hwdecode_demos] Decoded surface size: 320x240
[hwdecode_demos] 4 profiles available
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileMPEG2Simple
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileMPEG2Main
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileH264High
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileVC1Advanced
[hwdecode_demos] 1 entrypoints available for VAProfileH264High
[hwdecode_demos]   VAEntrypointVLD
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2
[hwdecode_demos] vaCreateContext(): unknown libva error
ERROR: decode failed

I'm guessing the problem is with XVBA_CreateDecode(). Anyway I can fix this?

(I'm very close to getting this working...)

[gbeauche]

I think the arch package for libva was downgraded due to the green screen issue that effects one ATI card or something. Because I saw mark's post a didn't try the compilation again.

What is the "green screen issue that effects one ATI card or something"?

I'm guessing the problem is with XVBA_CreateDecode(). Anyway I can fix this?

(I'm very close to getting this working...)

There is nothing you can do about it, I am sorry. Get another notebook and probably never buy ATI HW again in the future if you intend to get decent support on Linux.

[musturd]

What is the "green screen issue that effects one ATI card or something"?

I've only heard from the comments in the AUR xvba-video package:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31723

There is nothing you can do about it, I am sorry. Get another notebook and probably never buy ATI HW again in the future if you intend to get decent support on Linux.

Oh well...
I guess I'll just have to boot into Windows to get video acceleration.