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As far as I can remember I just updated the driver frommen the ppa and the installe xvba.

Have you tried updated fglrx drivers? I uséd the ppa from the ubuntu x-team? Worked fine on a HP 625 (ATI 4200).
http://dickmcjohnnson.blogspot.com/2011 ... 15-in.html (fglrx on HP 625)

It's a bug you cannot install it until you get a new driver. You can receive it from the x-swat team. It is working on my HP625 notebook with ATI 4200. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade How to get the driver from the AMD website... ...s...

This is my VLC output when starting a 1080p h.264 .mkv VLC media player 1.1.9 The Luggage (revision exported) Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS") Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE") [0x98f120] main libvlc: VLC wird mit dem Standard-Interface aus...

Hi!
Wanted to watch a 1080p h.264 .mkv with VLC 1.1.9.
Altough I have the latest drivers from xorg-edgers the performance is very poor.
It is 1 to 2 frames (est.)

Is there a sollution. I'm using a ACER 8172 Z notebook with a Pentium U5400 CPU. VAAPI is running.
What can I do to watch HD video?