diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-353-limit_glxSwapBuffers_going_to_far_ahead-0.1.patch b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-353-limit_glxSwapBuffers_going_to_far_ahead-0.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e42432f2df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-353-limit_glxSwapBuffers_going_to_far_ahead-0.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+From f46d7a99bc2f3bc70f274422ec8d16257e2a97aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: FernetMenta <fernetmenta@online.de>
+Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:07:08 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] ati: limit glxSwapBuffers going to far ahead
+
+---
+ xbmc/windowing/X11/WinSystemX11GL.cpp |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
+ 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/xbmc/windowing/X11/WinSystemX11GL.cpp b/xbmc/windowing/X11/WinSystemX11GL.cpp
+index 94f369e..870999e 100644
+--- a/xbmc/windowing/X11/WinSystemX11GL.cpp
++++ b/xbmc/windowing/X11/WinSystemX11GL.cpp
+@@ -43,7 +43,27 @@ CWinSystemX11GL::~CWinSystemX11GL()
+ 
+ bool CWinSystemX11GL::PresentRenderImpl(const CDirtyRegionList& dirty)
+ {
+-  if(m_iVSyncMode == 3)
++  if(m_iVSyncMode == 2)
++  {
++    static unsigned int last = 0;
++    unsigned int now;
++    if(m_glXGetVideoSyncSGI(&now) != 0)
++      CLog::Log(LOGERROR, "%s - glXGetVideoSyncSGI - Failed to get current retrace count", __FUNCTION__);
++
++    if (now == last)
++    {
++      if (m_glXWaitVideoSyncSGI(2, (last + 1) % 2, &now) != 0)
++        CLog::Log(LOGERROR, "%s - glXWaitVideoSyncSGI - Returned error", __FUNCTION__);
++      if(m_glXGetVideoSyncSGI(&now) != 0)
++        CLog::Log(LOGERROR, "%s - glXGetVideoSyncSGI - Failed to get current retrace count", __FUNCTION__);
++      last = now + 1;
++    }
++    else
++      last = now;
++
++    glXSwapBuffers(m_dpy, m_glWindow);
++  }
++  else if(m_iVSyncMode == 3)
+   {
+     glFinish();
+     unsigned int before = 0, after = 0;
+@@ -236,7 +256,6 @@ bool CWinSystemX11GL::CreateNewWindow(const CStdString& name, bool fullScreen, R
+   else
+     m_glXSwapIntervalMESA = NULL;
+ 
+-
+   return true;
+ }
+ 
+-- 
+1.7.5.4
+
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-354-vaapi_increase_number_of_video_surface_allocated-0.1.patch b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-354-vaapi_increase_number_of_video_surface_allocated-0.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a03fb50292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-354-vaapi_increase_number_of_video_surface_allocated-0.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From dff7d824c82f957e19ad56247134912d70862188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: FernetMenta <fernetmenta@online.de>
+Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:21:32 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] vaapi: increase number of video surface allocated
+
+---
+ xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDCodecs/Video/VAAPI.cpp |    4 +++-
+ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDCodecs/Video/VAAPI.cpp b/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDCodecs/Video/VAAPI.cpp
+index bcc3fe1..326c390 100644
+--- a/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDCodecs/Video/VAAPI.cpp
++++ b/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDCodecs/Video/VAAPI.cpp
+@@ -358,7 +358,9 @@ bool CDecoder::EnsureContext(AVCodecContext *avctx)
+     else
+       m_refs = 2;
+   }
+-  return EnsureSurfaces(avctx, m_refs + 3);
++  // number of reference + 3 renderbuffers + Holder
++  // an extra one should not harm
++  return EnsureSurfaces(avctx, m_refs + 5);
+ }
+ 
+ bool CDecoder::EnsureSurfaces(AVCodecContext *avctx, unsigned n_surfaces_count)
+-- 
+1.7.5.4
+
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-408-enable_PYTHONOPTIMIZE_with_external_Python-0.1.patch b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-408-enable_PYTHONOPTIMIZE_with_external_Python-0.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..821c1cc7bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr/patches/xbmc-pvr-5c6848a-408-enable_PYTHONOPTIMIZE_with_external_Python-0.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+diff -Naur xbmc-a3c804b/xbmc/interfaces/python/XBPython.cpp xbmc-a3c804b.patch/xbmc/interfaces/python/XBPython.cpp
+--- xbmc-a3c804b/xbmc/interfaces/python/XBPython.cpp	2011-08-17 23:40:00.000000000 +0200
++++ xbmc-a3c804b.patch/xbmc/interfaces/python/XBPython.cpp	2011-08-18 03:50:49.652475572 +0200
+@@ -335,11 +335,9 @@
+       // at http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#environment-variables
+ 
+ #if !defined(_WIN32)
+-      /* PYTHONOPTIMIZE is set off intentionally when using external Python.
+-         Reason for this is because we cannot be sure what version of Python
+-         was used to compile the various Python object files (i.e. .pyo,
+-         .pyc, etc.). */
+-        // check if we are running as real xbmc.app or just binary
++      // Required for python to find optimized code (pyo) files
++      setenv("PYTHONOPTIMIZE", "1", 1);
++      // check if we are running as real xbmc.app or just binary
+       if (!CUtil::GetFrameworksPath(true).IsEmpty())
+       {
+         // using external python, it's build looking for xxx/lib/python2.6