It works much better now! I downgraded back down my xf86-video-intel driver (and all of the other X stuff) and removed -. The video isn’t choppy anymore and it actually plays through the whole thing! Great!
It seems to think that I have an Nvidia card somehow (I think I might have a Nouveau driver installed as well), but it works, and when I set up the media center it’ll be on a clean installation anyways. This is my new log output:
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It also fails when I set the output method in VLC to VDPAU instead of Automatic, but it works well, so whatever.
Kodi works fine. I didn’t test it before, but VLC often performs better on my older computer, so I wanted to make sure that it works.
That’s the main thing that I was looking for. I’m used to Debian/Ubuntu style of things where “i686-pae” is everywhere. I thought that it was running without PAE.