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

[legume]

ALMOST THERE I tend to say... Everything went smoothly, I heard even one sec of sound initialized but then:

MPlayer SVN-r29834-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Hmm, your fglrxinfo and vainfo are identical to mine.

The mplayer output is different, though. I get a slightly different version number and less verbose output about the ts (if I use -v it's way more verbose).

Maybe you/distro has more in ~/.mplayer/config - mine is empty.

I do get a crash (not the same one) if I try when compiz is running - so maybe you should make sure compositing/effects are off.

Just to make sure we are using the same mplayer/stream -

 md5sum BBCHD-P-40.ts
7772799eec67cec4905771708f07ecf6  BBCHD-P-40.ts

md5sum mplayer-vaapi-20091106-FULL.tar.bz2 
8824425cb514a6ee801900246393726f  mplayer-vaapi-20091106-FULL.tar.bz2

Here's what I get - I suppose mine is going to be built against different headers/libs so that could account for the difference.

I also only run an old metacity without any desktop installed.

Maybe you could also check that it doesn't crash using just -vo gl or -vo xv

./mplayer -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi ~/BBCHD-P-40.ts 
MPlayer SVN-r29834-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing /home/andy/BBCHD-P-40.ts.
TS file format detected.
VIDEO H264(pid=2318) AUDIO A52(pid=2319) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 6940
FPS seems to be: 25.000000
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds3
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VA API accelerated codec.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 64x64 => 64x64 H.264 VA API Acceleration 
[vo_vaapi] Using 1:1 VA surface mapping
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Movie-Aspect is 1.82:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 1440x1080 => 1964x1080 H.264 VA API Acceleration 
[h264 @ 0x89215e0]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
A:59645.5 V:59645.5 A-V:  0.020 ct: -0.689 322/322  4%  3%  1.5% 6 0 
Exiting... (Quit)

[arbitrabbit]

I have exactly the same issue as Filipek

Here is what my log looks like on an AMD Phonem II (32 bit) running ATI Radeon 4850, with compiz disabled

./mplayer -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi /home/abhi/downloads/BBCHD-P-40.ts 
MPlayer SVN-r29834-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /home/abhi/downloads/BBCHD-P-40.ts.
TS file format detected.
VIDEO H264(pid=2318) AUDIO A52(pid=2319) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 6940
FPS seems to be: 25.000000
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds3
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VA API accelerated codec.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 64x64 => 64x64 H.264 VA API Acceleration 
[vo_vaapi] Using 1:1 VA surface mapping
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Movie-Aspect is 1.82:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 1440x1080 => 1964x1080 H.264 VA API Acceleration 
[h264 @ 0x89e6460]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: flip_page
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

I can't see any difference between your log and mine until the point that mplayer crashes. So I am not sure what is going on here. Not an AMD vs Intel issue hopefully.

Another interesting thing I have noticed is that the first time I run the file, I get the error

MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: vo_check_events
All subsequent errors are
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: flip_page



Running the hwdecode demos also results in VAAPI functions not working

hwdecode-demos-0.7.5/src$ ./vaapi_vc1
Display type 'x11'
Hardware accelerator 'vaapi'
[hwdecode_demos] VA display 0x84b9cc8
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds3
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[hwdecode_demos] VA API version 0.31
[hwdecode_demos] 1 display attributes available
[hwdecode_demos]   VADisplayAttribDirectSurface     (get/---) min 0 max 0 value 0x0
[hwdecode_demos] 4 profiles available
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileMPEG2Simple
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileMPEG2Main
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileH264High
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileVC1Advanced
[hwdecode_demos] 1 entrypoints available for VAProfileVC1Advanced
[hwdecode_demos]   VAEntrypointVLD
[hwdecode_demos] vaPutSurface(): the requested function is not implemented
ERROR: display failed

./vaapi_h264
Display type 'x11'
Hardware accelerator 'vaapi'
[hwdecode_demos] VA display 0x8889cc8
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds3
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[hwdecode_demos] VA API version 0.31
[hwdecode_demos] 1 display attributes available
[hwdecode_demos]   VADisplayAttribDirectSurface     (get/---) min 0 max 0 value 0x0
[hwdecode_demos] 4 profiles available
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileMPEG2Simple
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileMPEG2Main
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileH264High
[hwdecode_demos]   VAProfileVC1Advanced
[hwdecode_demos] 1 entrypoints available for VAProfileH264High
[hwdecode_demos]   VAEntrypointVLD
[hwdecode_demos] vaPutSurface(): the requested function is not implemented
ERROR: display failed

Though FFMPEG seems to work

./ffmpeg_
ffmpeg_h264   ffmpeg_mpeg2  ffmpeg_mpeg4  ffmpeg_vc1    
abhi@ubuntu:~/test/hwdecode-demos-0.7.5/src$ ./ffmpeg_h264 
Display type 'x11'
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '':
  Duration: 00:00:00.08, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 320x240 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 1159 kb/s, 12 tbr, 12 tbn, 24 tbc
  Metadata
    major_brand     : isom
    minor_version   : 512
    compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
    encoder         : Lavf52.32.0
[hwdecode_demos] convert YV12:320x240 to RGB :640x480
press any key to exit

[Kano]

I guess you don't use 9-10 final, maybe 9-10 beta or 9-11 final. Did you use the ati-installer directly?

[arbitrabbit]

I guess you don't use 9-10 final, maybe 9-10 beta or 9-11 final. Did you use the ati-installer directly?

I used the ATI installer directly, but used the old 9.10
The version number of my drivers are
OpenGL version string: 2.1.9016
2D driver version: 8.66.10

[Kano]

That installer only works for 32 bit. Otherwise my script is prefered with -v 9-10.

[arbitrabbit]

That installer only works for 32 bit. Otherwise my script is prefered with -v 9-10.

I am using 32bit. Also, ATI has updated its site so your script now downloads 9.11

[arbitrabbit]

Okay, got it sorted. Had installed 9.11 earlier, so when I downgraded to 9.10, didn't downgrade libamdxvba1. So once I did that it started working.

[Kano]

That's why -v 9-10 will install the driver correctly. -v is the option that allows to specify a specific driver.

[arbitrabbit]

That's why -v 9-10 will install the driver correctly. -v is the option that allows to specify a specific driver.

Ah alright...didn't realise you meant that invoke the script with arguments -v 9-10. My bad.

Just to confirm, the current implementation doesn't support MPEG4 files, right? Is there any plan to support that?

Also, is there any way to make flash work with vaapi as well? I know there is a patch out to get Gnash working with VAAPI but that doesn't seem to work for me (gnash doesn't compile due to some errors in Renderer_ogl.cpp)

[xzero2]

Ah alright...didn't realise you meant that invoke the script with arguments -v 9-10. My bad.

Just to confirm, the current implementation doesn't support MPEG4 files, right? Is there any plan to support that?

Also, is there any way to make flash work with vaapi as well? I know there is a patch out to get Gnash working with VAAPI but that doesn't seem to work for me (gnash doesn't compile due to some errors in Renderer_ogl.cpp)

It does support mp4 files, depending on the codec.