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Since Vulkan is the big thing right now for us, it's probably a good idea to watch the livestream of their event happening now.


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I will try to keep notes as they go, but I will probably be asleep when anything interesting is discussed. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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vulture 12 Aug 2015
flash required? guess i'll wait for recording, there is no way in hell i'm installing that crap
Zelox 12 Aug 2015
I dont want to sound greede. But is this something that will be uploaded on youtube?
Dunno if thats legal for GOL, or can I see this at a later date?
I cant watch a stream right now, tho Im fairly intressed in this ^^.

Wow Im really liking this vulkan, nvidia stuff thats been in the news latly on GOL.
Seems Linux are getting closer and closer to stopt being ignored by developers and players.
And it seems like, its not only talk anymore, vulkan is getting public ^^.


Last edited by Zelox on 12 Aug 2015 at 8:42 pm UTC
SketchStick 12 Aug 2015
flash required? guess i'll wait for recording, there is no way in hell i'm installing that crap
Install LiveStreamer, it's a command that can catch the stream and open it in your choice of video player. There's even a good chance it's already in your distro's repository. http://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Once installed you can just type in: livestreamer http://www.ustream.tv/channel/khronos-siggraph best
Zelox 12 Aug 2015
flash required? guess i'll wait for recording, there is no way in hell i'm installing that crap

May I ask why u dont want to install flash?
sonic 12 Aug 2015
SketchStick: Thank you very much for the tip :))
ricki42 12 Aug 2015
Install LiveStreamer, it's a command that can catch the stream and open it in your choice of video player. There's even a good chance it's already in your distro's repository. http://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Once installed you can just type in: livestreamer http://www.ustream.tv/channel/khronos-siggraph best

Thanks! Wished I had known about this before. So much better watching this in mplayer.
ElectricPrism 12 Aug 2015
flash required? guess i'll wait for recording, there is no way in hell i'm installing that crap
Simply watch on Chrome/Chromium instead as they have a custom flash called Pepper thats part of their browser?

Works for me. Netflix, Flash, etc...

Installing Flash into my package manager - ew.


Last edited by ElectricPrism on 12 Aug 2015 at 9:01 pm UTC
Ignis 12 Aug 2015
May I ask why u dont want to install flash?

(not him, but) Flash is insecure.
VelhoP 12 Aug 2015
Why you want to uninstall flash: http://occupyflash.org/
pete910 12 Aug 2015
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Livestream is handy for twitch too. just fires up vlc
Shmerl 13 Aug 2015
Some slides on Vulkan / WSI and Wayland:

![](https://i.imgur.com/ib2hyrd.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/LJhMdFB.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/LJhMdFB.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/kJCr8hE.jpg)
Shmerl 13 Aug 2015
To watch the recorded version without any Flash, try this

mpv 'http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406'

That's it ;)


Last edited by Shmerl on 13 Aug 2015 at 6:06 am UTC
OlliC 13 Aug 2015
$ mpv 'http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406'
Playing: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406
Failed to open http://tcdn.ustream.tv/video/70729406.


Does not work for me...
Shmerl 13 Aug 2015
$ mpv 'http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406'
Playing: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406
Failed to open http://tcdn.ustream.tv/video/70729406.


Does not work for me...

Not sure why. Here is what I see:

mpv --version
mpv 0.9.2 (C) 2000-2015 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on UNKNOWN
ffmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       54.27.100
   libavcodec      56.41.100
   libavformat     56.36.100
   libswscale      3.1.101
   libavfilter     5.16.101                                                                                                                                                                  
   libswresample   1.2.100



Last edited by Shmerl on 13 Aug 2015 at 9:03 am UTC
jochenh 13 Aug 2015
@Liam, could you please review the NVIDIA video on Sunday. There are great news here:
- NVIDIA will support vulkan on Linux
- Driver support will be starting from GTX 400
- Driver will be mixed with OpenGl, so both can be used at the same time
- Driver support will be Day1 on Linux starting with the release of Vulkan Specs
LinuxGamesTV 13 Aug 2015
@Liam, could you please review the NVIDIA video on Sunday. There are great news here:
- NVIDIA will support vulkan on Linux
- Driver support will be starting from GTX 400
- Driver will be mixed with OpenGl, so both can be used at the same time
- Driver support will be Day1 on Linux starting with the release of Vulkan Specs

Great News :) Thx for sharing.
jochenh 13 Aug 2015
Here is the full video: http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/siggraph/2015/video/SIG501-Piers-Daniell.html
OlliC 13 Aug 2015
$ mpv 'http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406'
Playing: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406
Failed to open http://tcdn.ustream.tv/video/70729406.


Does not work for me...

Not sure why. Here is what I see:

mpv --version
mpv 0.9.2 (C) 2000-2015 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on UNKNOWN
ffmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       54.27.100
   libavcodec      56.41.100
   libavformat     56.36.100
   libswscale      3.1.101
   libavfilter     5.16.101                                                                                                                                                                  
   libswresample   1.2.100

$ mpv --version
mpv 0.8.0 (C) 2000-2015 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
built on 2015-02-19T17:03:21
libav library versions:
libavutil 54.3.0
libavcodec 56.1.0
libavformat 56.1.0
libswscale 3.0.0
libavfilter 5.0.0
libavresample 2.1.0

It's the version in Ubuntu 15.04.
tuubi 13 Aug 2015
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$ mpv --version
mpv 0.8.0
Yeah you probably need a more recent version. I got 0.9.2 from mc3man's trusty-media PPA. You also need a recent version of youtube-dl. You can always get the latest one with pip. (The package is called python-pip in Ubuntu.)
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