Comment 29 for bug 1837170

Using Kodi as reference for the behaviour of VDPAU hw acceleration on the system:

The latest version of mesa doesn't work and makes Kodi crash when opening any video.
I figured that when I downgrade every package of mesa to version 18.2.8, kodi is now able to
run videos, but still without vdpau. The behaviour improved, but without hw acceleration.

https://launchpad.net/~canonical-x/+archive/ubuntu/x-staging

I meant that when I upgrade mesa with this package, I encounter the same behaviour of the version 18.2.8 I downgraded.

Using Oibaf's ppa is the only to get vdpau acceleration working, but the image is too dark,
it doesn't have the bells and whistles specifically optimized for Ubuntu.

I wrote earlier that I tested disco with success, vdpau runs well and nothing's necessary to add.