Kodi 18.1 on almost all the TV channels lags. It wasn't lagging a year ago, when I checked on a given machine (default 16.04 install and it doesn't counts what quality does the video have, nothing else is running in the background).
Maybe I can see some vdpau-va-driver related issues:
user@asdf:~$ kodi
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
user@asdf:~$
on package level:
root@asdf:~# apt-get install va-driver-all
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:
va-driver-all : Depends: vdpau-va-driver but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~# apt-get install vdpau-va-driver
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:
vdpau-va-driver : Depends: libva-driver-abi-0.39 or
libva-driver-abi-0.31 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~#
root@asdf:~# grep ^[a-z] /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial universe
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/intellinuxgraphics.list:deb https://download.01.org/gfx/ubuntu/16.04/main xenial main #Intel Graphics drivers
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list:deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x xenial main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list:deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x xenial main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list:deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list.save:deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/team-xbmc-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu xenial main
root@asdf:~#
The question: how to resolve this dependency issue officially?
Already tried to use video driver updater via 01.org, but it stops because of the dependency issue. Dependency issue was there before the 01.org try too!
Google doesn't brings up any solution. Let's have one!
sudo apt update(ensure that you do not have any error output here), and add output ofapt-cache policy va-driver-all mesa-va-driversto the question. – N0rbert Apr 08 '19 at 15:29