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i965-va-driver

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Eric
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Joined: Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:48 am

i965-va-driver

#1 Post by Eric »

Ever since I installed MX Linux on my MintBox Mini 2 Pro I have had some problems with video play back.
Some videos would not play.

After searching the internet, I discovered I needed a specific intel video acceleration driver
i965-va-driver

I installed it and all the problems went away.

It seems to me that it should be installed automatically on machines such as mine with no dedicated graphics card, or perhaps put in some sort of MX tool, like the one for nvidia drivers.

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dolphin_oracle
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Re: i965-va-driver

#2 Post by dolphin_oracle »

thank you for that. we will look at adding it in.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

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Stevo
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Re: i965-va-driver

#3 Post by Stevo »

I think all you need to add is our newer vainfo and i965-va-driver. I missed updating those for the MX 18 release, but they are now in the main repo. I'm glad to see you also have va-api acceleration working with our players--as I understand, some might need to be rebuilt with our newer libva...or it might just have been ffmpeg, which I also did after the release. So it won't work in the MX 18 Live session until the updates are done.

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