Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[oviguera]

have you installed mplayer-vaapi? (totem or simple mplayer doesn't work yet)
install mplayer-vaapi using this script

wget http://kanotix.com/files/fix/mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt && sudo bash ./mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt && echo "export GMA500_WORKAROUND=yes" | tee -a ~/.bashrc

and play files using this

mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi filename.mpg

Thanks Lucazade! You were right. I hadn't install mplayer-vaapi yet. I've tried your script and found some problems. Please Could you give a hand with them?


svn: Unknown hostname 'svn.mplayerhq.hu'
cd: 89: can't cd to mplayer-vaapi
svn: Unknown hostname 'svn.mplayerhq.hu'
svn: Unknown hostname 'svn.mplayerhq.hu'
svn: Unknown hostname 'svn.mplayerhq.hu'

and this one too:


./mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt: line 90: cd: mplayer-vaapi: No such file or directory
./mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt: line 92: ../mplayer-optimize.diff: No such file or directory
./mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt: line 94: ../ffmpeg.vaapi.mpeg4.bframes.patch: No such file or directory
./mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt: line 95: ../ffmpeg.vaapi.gma500.mpeg4.bframes.patch: No such file or directory
libvdpau-dev: /usr/include/vdpau/vdpau.h
./mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt: line 97: debian/shlibs.local: No such file or directory
./mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt: line 98: debian/shlibs.local: No such file or directory
svn: '.' is not a working copy
dch: fatal error at line 475:
Cannot find debian/changelog anywhere!
Are you in the source code tree?
(You could use --create if you wish to create this file.)
debuild: fatal error at line 630:
cannot find readable debian/changelog anywhere!
Are you in the source code tree?

real 0m0.254s
user 0m0.180s
sys 0m0.076s
dpkg: errorea mplayer*.deb prozesatzean (--install):
ezin da sartu artxiboan: No such file or directory
Erroreak aurkitu dira prozesatzerakoan:
mplayer*.deb

[lucazade]

Thanks Lucazade! You were right. I hadn't install mplayer-vaapi yet. I've tried your script and found some problems. Please Could you give a hand with them?

Unfortunately i haven't done this script and it seems some resources it calls are not available at the moment. I don't know how to help you, i hope it will be back working because we're all using this script.
(in the customized livecd mplayer-vaapi is installed if can help you)

[ddumanis]

Hi,

Wondering if this driver will be officially integrated into the standard Lucid (or Maverick) repos anytime soon.

Anyone know?

And thanks to Lucazade for all your hard work. My ASUS 1201HA is running fine.

[Phoenixx81]

Hi folks,

thanks lucazade. Here is the second confirmation of compiz working on a 1201ha. Its very fluent now. Flash has to wait.

BUT i have now a sound problem. Every time i want to play a media file, there is a clicking noise at the beginning and at the end of the playback.
I will fix it tomorrow, if i can . I want to sleep now.

Thanks again lucazade

Regards

Phoenixx81

[zehjotkah]

compiz is working on my Nokia Booklet 3G too.
I noticed that the icons in the gnome menu are loading faster now (they are instantly there, no delay like before).
also there are small window previews finally.

Thanks!

It is possible that HDMI out is working now, too?
I think it doesn't have anything to do with compiz, but who knows...
Sadly I don't have the possibility to try it for the next few days.

[meyerm]

It seems to work for me on my Dell Mini 10, too. However, I'm using the Kubuntu-flavor on this. Anybody else here using KDE and got his desktop-effect of KWin to run?

Thanks!

[jbernardo]

It seems to work for me on my Dell Mini 10, too. However, I'm using the Kubuntu-flavor on this. Anybody else here using KDE and got his desktop-effect of KWin to run?

Thanks!

I'm on kubuntu on my 1101HA (and maybe because of that I don't have audio problems - no pulseaudio), to enable the effects you have to go first to the third tab, disable the functionalities checking, and use xrender composition. Like that it should work.

[simplygades]

I think KDE native desktop effects are not available for now using OpenGL. You can have some of them working (transparency) if you enable XRender instead. But I think there is no hardware acceleration then.

Delayed answer

[jbernardo]

I think KDE native desktop effects are not available for now using OpenGL. You can have some of them working (transparency) if you enable XRender instead. But I think there is no hardware acceleration then.

Delayed answer

There is still some acceleration, but no screen cube...

Now, I need to check if the flash replacement works in kde, or do I really need gnome-mplayer. Seems like you guys have been busy while I was away...

[cataclop]

Compiz works well on my msi wind u115 too (Ubuntu Lucid) ; I didn't test Flash, because I don't really need it. I can watch video files with vlc, thanks to the workaround.