Xvba is the xvideo bitstream acceleration api developed by amd for their catalyst linux graphics driver. There is a somewhat buggy vdpau driver based on opengl, it can be installed via. Xvbabased backend for va api amd fglrx implementation. Check if you can access to all the ubuntu repositories, especially the one rated as restricted or multiverse. This may not give you the latest drivers, but should be safest.
Acceleration materielle du decodage video vlc et vaapi geekfault. For now vaapi is available on some intel chips, and on some amd video adapters with help of xvbavadriver. To do that by installing xvbavadriver, libvaglx1 and vainfo. How to install and configure graphics drivers in linux. Open a terminal and use this command, or look for the packages using the. Open source drivers are updated and getting better and better not likely to.
Xvideo bitstream acceleration xvba, designed by amd for its atiamd radeon gpu, is a future. Trying to uninstall fglrxdriver but xvbavadriver has. Xvba is designed to expose the video acceleration capabilities offered by the radeon unified video decoder uvd but has seen only limited adoption of xvba by linux multimedia applications. Xbmc pvr builds with direct amdati xvideo bitstream acceleration xvba support for xvba use fglrx binary driveramd catalyst 11. Linux howto use vaapi hw acceleration on amd zacate.