NVIDIA Lands AV1 VDPAU Hardware Acceleration In FFmpeg

[WereCatf]

This is great news. Thank you Nvidia.

Unfortunately, due to the shoddy support shown to Wayland, I am actively avoiding Nvidia until such a time Wayland is functioning properly on their GPUs.

Thus, any idea if and when AMD/Intel will support this feature?

Neither AMD or Intel use VDPAU, so probably never. AMD and Intel use VAAPI, or alternatively AMF for AMD and QSV for Intel.

[numacross]

Not for the 6400 and 6500 they haven't, a terrible omission and why these cards should be given a wide berth.

http://www.neowin.net/news/amd039s-n...d-hevc-encode/

That is very unfortunate, and not much information about this is available. There's nothing on Radeon RX 6000 and VCN Wikipedia pages, and the X documentation wrongly states that BEIGE GOBY (which is RX 6500 XT) supports AV1 decode.

Neither AMD or Intel use VDPAU, so probably never. AMD and Intel use VAAPI, or alternatively AMF for AMD and QSV for Intel.

According to the FFmpeg documentation AMD decoders are accessible via VDPAU (with no support for AV1 and VP9 according to Arch Wiki) and VAAPI under Linux.

[DanL]

Neither AMD or Intel use VDPAU, so probably never. AMD and Intel use VAAPI, or alternatively AMF for AMD and QSV for Intel.

AMD can use VDPAU through the Gallium3D state tracker, at least for certain formats. In fact, I used to use it before VA-API got in better shape for non-Intel GPU's.

[Vistaus]

Thank you Nvidia.

This has got to be the first time I ever see anyone thanking Nvidia within the Linux community.

[Quackdoc]

This has got to be the first time I ever see anyone thanking Nvidia within the Linux community.

talk to people doing compute, then you will get it plenty lmao

[jaxa]

Not for the 6400 and 6500 they haven't, a terrible omission and why these cards should be given a wide berth.

http://www.neowin.net/news/amd039s-n...d-hevc-encode/

AMD's failure to put AV1 decode in Navi 24 (6500 XT and 6400) is widely known by now, but what does it mean for the VCN version? Is it using an older version number or a special nerfed version of VCN 3.0?

[MorrisS.]

That is a complex matter since it depends a lot on your distribution and setup.

For Firefox you can use this Fedora article to check/configure it on AMD/Intel via VAAPI.

As for Chrome/Chromium you can check chrome://gpu

What have I to see on that page (chrome:gpu) to see whether it runs? thanks

[numacross]

What have I to see on that page (chrome:gpu) to see whether it runs? thanks

Since you asked for video decode acceleration you're looking for "Video Decode: Hardware accelerated"

[middy]

Neither AMD or Intel use VDPAU, so probably never. AMD and Intel use VAAPI, or alternatively AMF for AMD and QSV for Intel.

amd supports vdpau. and vaapi. t. proud and prideful 6900 xt user.

[CochainComplex]

This has got to be the first time I ever see anyone thanking Nvidia within the Linux community.

Well once in a while there is an ironical thx