AMD's UVD2-based XvBA Finally Does Something On Linux

[gbeauche]

LOL So in effect gbeauche could today bump to his potential 0.8.x-series and probably easily implement it on the v2.3 SDK supplied OVDECODE_API On Windows, Today.

Sorry, but, no, I have no intention to work on Windows.

[evolution]

Sorry, I can't report anything for chipsets we don't use. FYI, the Evergreen rendering bug was first reported 2009/12/14 and was finally fixed 2010/12/14, exactly one year later. So, please be patient.

Ok, maybe if the Evergreen / Cayman Support is satisfactory enough on Linux when I buy my next laptop, I'll buy another one with an ATI card ... For now, I'll stick for a while with my HD2600 + Catalyst 10.7, in this 4-year-old laptop...

Cheers

[direx]

Hi there - I have a problem with vlc and VAAPI.

I managed to get VAAPI to work properly. On a Radeon HD 4250 vlc only consumes 30-40% of CPU for 1080p playback (before: 100%).

The weird thing is that Xorg now consumes 89% of the CPU, which prevents smooth video playback (the video itself is played back, no artifacts). What can I do against this?

vainfo:

libva: libva version 0.31.1-sds1
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA API version: 0.31
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.7.7
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

xvinfo:

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "ATI Radeon AVIVO Video"
    number of ports: 4
    port base: 143
    operations supported: PutImage
    [...]

This is on a Ubuntu 10.10 machine. I've tried both Catalyst 10.10 and 10.12 - they both cause the Xorg-VAAPI issue. When I disable HW-decoding in vlc, Xorg goes down to 2% CPU load - but obviously vlc is at 100% without VAAPI

[direx]

Hi there - I have a problem with vlc and VAAPI

Never mind - I got it working. For anyone interested, this is how I did it:

1. clean installation of Ubuntu 10.10 (amd64)
2. installed all updates, rebooted
3. installation of ATI driver from the restricted drivers
4. open a terminal window and type:
   • sudo apt-add-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
   • sudo apt-get update
   • wget http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbe....7-1_amd64.deb
   • sudo dpkg -i xvba-video_0.7.7-1_amd64.deb
   • sudo apt-get install vlc vainfo
   • sudo ln -s /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so #this is a hack, which I needed
5. after another reboot check vainfo

This is the PPA which has a modified version of vlc and libva:

https://launchpad.net/~n-muench/+archive/vlc/

For my Radeon HD 4250 the default 10.10 Catalyst drivers did the trick - I did not need to update to a newer version.

[peter124]

tried vainfo after that, i got.
libva: libva version 0.31.1
libva: User requested driver 'fglrx'
libva: Trying to open /usr/local/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

I used the tips from page 101 and set
export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME="fglrx"

Now I find with strace that mplayer tries to open
/usr/lib64/libXvBAW.so.1
which I don't have.

I use Opensuse 11.3 which contains only this library in
/usr/lib

Any ideas?

[energyman]

usually on 64 bit systems /usr/lib is a symlink to /usr/lib64

[deanjo]

usually on 64 bit systems /usr/lib is a symlink to /usr/lib64

Ummm not really. Compatibility libraries are usually in /usr/lib as well in 64-bit systems.

[energyman]

except when they land in /usr/lib32 where they belong.

[deanjo]

except when they land in /usr/lib32 where they belong.

IIRC LSB specifies /usr/lib not /usr/lib32

[deanjo]

Sorry fhs not lsb