Unable to use VAAPI

[bsmith1051]

My system:

• - Ubuntu 10.10 (32-bit)
  - AMD 785 mobo w HD4200 video
  - ATI Catalyst 10.12 driver
  - libva1, libva-dev, libva1-dbg, and xvba-video (v.0.7.6) from splitted-desktop
  (I had to overwrite the 'official' copy of libva1 else xvba-video wouldn't work, at all)

When I run 'vainfo' I get the following:

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libva: libva version 0.31.1-sds1 Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so libva: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA API version: 0.31 vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.7.6 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointIDCT VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointIDCT VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD

So, at this point it seems like everything's working. But then I am unable to get either VLC or XBMC to recognize/use the VAAPI support. Something else is missing but I have no idea what. When I run VLC with '--verbose 2' all it tells me is:

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libva: va_getDriverName() returns -1 avcodec decoder warning: Failed to open VA API

What else can I do to troubleshoot this?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Is the vlc compiled against the right libva version?