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vibee

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 38

AMD HD4200, radeon, vdpau issue

Hello,

I have issues making my Radeon HD4200 using vdpau hardware decoding.

I am using the radeon driver and installed libvdpau-va-gl. Although the HD4200 should be able to decode h264 and vc-1, my system only supports decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2:

$ vdpauinfo 
display: :0.0   screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0

Video surface:

name   width height types
-------------------------------------------
420     8192  8192  NV12 YV12 
422     8192  8192  UYVY YUYV 
444     8192  8192  Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 

Decoder capabilities:

name               level macbs width height
-------------------------------------------
MPEG1                 0 262144  8192  8192
MPEG2_SIMPLE          3 262144  8192  8192
MPEG2_MAIN            3 262144  8192  8192
...

Any suggestions?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: AMD HD4200, radeon, vdpau issue

First, libvdpau-va-gl is for drivers which use VAAPI, so basically Intel. You don't need it.

Second, there is no UVD support for your HD4200. It's one of the chips the feature matrix lists as TODO, see point 4 here: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#4 (HD4200 = RS880)

Support might be coming soon, or it might not. This is one of those things where not even the devs themselves know if and when their code will pass technical and legal review.