video using the AMD APU

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charliea
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Joined: 07/30/2015

How can I watch HD video on VLC using the AMD APU?

On Ubuntu, it is possible with http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/fglrx, however this is non-free software.

Is there a workaround?

tomlukeywood
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Joined: 12/05/2014

what happends when you try to play video on your laptop?
it should render with the cpu?

charliea
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Joined: 07/30/2015

The video plays. It does render with the CPU, which really heats it up.

cooloutac
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Joined: 06/27/2015

You can use the 4.1.4 kernel to install radeon drivers from the jxself repository. "using jxself repository method" scroll down on this link https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel

lembas
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Joined: 05/13/2010

> scroll down on this link ...

Or click directly to

https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel#toc8

:)

(you can dig the name of that anchor from the page source code, quite handy sometimes, more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_anchor#Anchor)

Calinou
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Joined: 03/08/2014

With an AMD APU/GPU, it is not possible to benefit from 3D acceleration, and even less from video acceleration, using fully free software. The "free" radeon driver relies on a non-free blob to function, which is not present in Linux-libre, the kernel Trisquel uses.

Your only choice is to switch to an Intel IGP, or a NVIDIA graphics card using Nouveau (Maxwell-generation cards have no Nouveau support, though).