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RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - fritsch - 2016-04-28

Good - so then, back to the max_cstate hack. More I cannot do. For the endless story: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - jeckyllhavok - 2016-04-28

I now disabled c6 and c7 in Bios, testing atm.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - fatalkill3r - 2016-04-28

I was facing the same issue. max_cstate works pretty good for baytrail


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - jeckyllhavok - 2016-04-28

(2016-04-28, 15:29)fatalkill3r Wrote: I was facing the same issue. max_cstate works pretty good for baytrail

Playing around with some BIOS settings.

I just disabled
CPU c6 report: disabled
CPU c7 report: disabled

But let Package C State Limit set on No Limit.

No freezes for 2 hours, videos still running


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - Mave - 2016-04-28

I did a clean 16.04 install today and ran into some freezes in the menu, my system is Skylake-based. Are you aware of any problems on Skylake based systems? Also i had no audio device detected using Intel HD Graphics 530, is that a Pulseaudio problem which can be fixed using Alsa? I based my setup on the nightly build, but official only.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - User 182116 - 2016-04-28

I carried out a 16.04 install on my Beebox N3150 too and noticed a freeze every hour or so.

I went into the BIOS and pretty much set all options dedicated to power consumption to their lower levels and after 8 hours continuous playback I haven't had a single freeze.

The only audio problem that I found was that AAC 5.1 seemed only to output to 2 channels but as I only have a handful of files with AAC 5.1, it's not really an issue for me.

Dolby 5.1 and DTS were fine.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - fritsch - 2016-04-29

(2016-04-28, 23:09)Mave Wrote: I did a clean 16.04 install today and ran into some freezes in the menu, my system is Skylake-based. Are you aware of any problems on Skylake based systems? Also i had no audio device detected using Intel HD Graphics 530, is that a Pulseaudio problem which can be fixed using Alsa? I based my setup on the nightly build, but official only.

The original howto does not install Pulseaudio, so no need to switch to ALSA.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - fritsch - 2016-04-29

(2016-04-28, 23:37)Bluesmanuk Wrote: I carried out a 16.04 install on my Beebox N3150 too and noticed a freeze every hour or so.

I went into the BIOS and pretty much set all options dedicated to power consumption to their lower levels and after 8 hours continuous playback I haven't had a single freeze.

The only audio problem that I found was that AAC 5.1 seemed only to output to 2 channels but as I only have a handful of files with AAC 5.1, it's not really an issue for me.

Dolby 5.1 and DTS were fine.

No Debug Log, no issue and nothing to solve :-)


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - Mave - 2016-04-29

(2016-04-29, 07:07)fritsch Wrote:
(2016-04-28, 23:09)Mave Wrote: I did a clean 16.04 install today and ran into some freezes in the menu, my system is Skylake-based. Are you aware of any problems on Skylake based systems? Also i had no audio device detected using Intel HD Graphics 530, is that a Pulseaudio problem which can be fixed using Alsa? I based my setup on the nightly build, but official only.

The original howto does not install Pulseaudio, so no need to switch to ALSA.
I thought Pulseaudio was installed by default, my bad so i have to look furter into that. But do i need the patched kernel for Skylake-based systems also because of the freezes? I have those freezes everywhere, also in the menus.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - fritsch - 2016-04-29

You need to provide what this howto wants, which is described in the second post. Without logs no help is possible. Those are mandatory to save developer time.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - ggp759 - 2016-04-29

I have out of sync issues with the latest (3rd of April) build on a chromebox. Happening with 23.976hz files. Using passthrough. It's very slight but its there. Is this a known fact? Something is a wip? Thanks a lot.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - jeckyllhavok - 2016-04-29

(2016-04-29, 12:02)ggp759 Wrote: I have out of sync issues with the latest (3rd of April) build on a chromebox. Happening with 23.976hz files. Using passthrough. It's very slight but its there. Is this a known fact? Something is a wip? Thanks a lot.

Do an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade to get the latest kodi build (should be from yesterday)


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - fritsch - 2016-04-29

If latest build means: OpenELEC - then please head over to the Milhouse thread and LibreELEC. I don't provide these builds anymore.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - fatalkill3r - 2016-04-29

While playing IPTV I am experiencing logos and news ticker-like texts to be shaky. I am using Baytrail and followed this howto. Is this normal with Baytrail ? I have tried Vaapi-MC, Vaapi-MA and Vaapi-BOB. Somehow the CPU based deinterlacing [Blend] works better than the GPU based ones.


RE: Intel VAAPI howto with Krypton v17 based on Ubuntu 16.04 server - fritsch - 2016-04-29

Depends on the content and scaler used.

576i is fine with MCDI
1080i is not

The BYT has the worst GPU since the Celeron 847 ... in short: don't expect too much.

Not sure how you can select "BLEND" cause this only works when SW Decoding is enabled ...

In short: No further info without logfiles possible. If you want to try typical content, test with: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/