where to get mplayer with vaapi support?

[spot-draves]

I have been using ubuntu 14.04, intel drivers from 0.1.org, and the vaapi enabled mplayer from ppa:sander-vangrieken/vaapi and been very happy with the performance.
Yesterday I went to build a new machine and discovered that the drivers no longer work on 14.04 and so I installed 14.10. Unfortunately, the above PPA with mplayer that works with these drivers does not support 14.10. I cannot find a replacement PPA.
Can anyone provide instructions for installing mplayer that can access this hardware? Thanks.

[mc4man]

My question would be do you think the Intel driver(s) really make any difference.
Also you can note that there are newer packages available for 14.04 from elsewhere
Here I show/use on a 14.04.1 orig install -
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30

As far as newer packages -
i965-va-driver:
Installed: 1.5.1~pre1-1~trusty
libva1:
Installed: 1.5.1~pre1~trusty

[monkeybrain20122]

I use mpv with vaapi enabled (works with Smplayer as front end too) If you must use mplayer with hardware acceleration on intel get libvdpau-va-gl and use vdpau. https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl

libvdpau-va-gl is in the repo but it didn't work in 14.04 from what I remember, you can either get the up to date version from webupd8's ppa http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/adobe...-hardware.html or get the source from link above and compile, --it is quite easy.

[monkeybrain20122]

My question would be do you think the Intel driver(s) really make any difference.

yes it does. Huge difference even with Ubuntu's stock driver. But one can get even better results with https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archiv...aphics-drivers

[spot-draves]

thanks. i might be able to use mpv, the only thing i really need is to play from the command line, reading the video stream from stdin.

however if i apt-get install mpv i get:

$ sudo apt-get install mpv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mpv : Depends: libguess1 (>= 1.2.1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: mesa-vdpau-drivers but it is not going to be installed or
nvidia-vdpau-driver but it is not installable or
nvidia-driver-binary or
nvidia-current but it is not going to be installed or
vdpau-driver
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

i also tried ppa:mc3man/mpv-tests

[mc4man]

Where are you trying to get mpv from & I can maybe help you out

apt-cache policy mpv

[spot-draves]

maybe i should add, this is on an intel nuc with hd5000

[monkeybrain20122]

Not sure what is wrong. Maybe you should install from mc4man's ppa https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/mpv-tests

I install from source myself https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

[spot-draves]

$ sudo apt-cache policy mpv
mpv:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:0.9.0~utopic2.1
Version table:
2:0.9.0~utopic2.1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mc3man/mpv-tests/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
0.4.2-1ubuntu3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages

[mc4man]

$ sudo apt-cache policy mpv
mpv:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:0.9.0~utopic2.1
Version table:
2:0.9.0~utopic2.1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mc3man/mpv-tests/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
0.4.2-1ubuntu3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages

Damn - Give me a little while to fix
As 14.10 is dead to me I blindly decided to give users of it one last build. I must have used the 14.04 package & didn't adjust some deps.
(I don't have 14.10 to test.