Problem using xvba

[PsynoKhi0]

Somehow managed to get VLC to use VA API on openSUSE 11.4 64 bit

VLC, libva1 and vaapi-tools installed from Packman, and xvba-video-amd from Build Service

vainfo returns

libva: libva version 0.32.0
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA API version: 0.32
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.8.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

Now, to launch VLC I use the following script:

#!/bin/bash
export LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib64/dri
export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=fglrx
vlc --ffmpeg-hw

Without the export (info I found on Ubuntu's launchpad I think) VLC just crashes when attempting to launch a video that takes advantage of VA API.

With the script, the terminal output looks like this:

libva: libva version 0.32.0
libva: User requested driver 'fglrx'
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
xvba_video: XVBA_GetSurface(): status 2
[0xae4200] avcodec decoder: Using VA API version 0.32 for hardware decoding.

With VA API up and running in VLC, CPU usage is only marginally better than mplayer with GL output though, and tearing is more noticeable unless I disable overlay, but then CPU usage almost doubles .