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

[zhenya_k]

Uninstalling the previous driver is probably a good idea. Frequently you can get away without it but we recommend always uninstalling first.

Thanks for the point.

Some time ago I had a very 'pleasant' time with mastering proper xorg.conf with the help of aticonfig, so I have some experience in it . The main troubles were I wanted to get zaphod mode and one of my widescreen monitors didn't report EDID information through VGA connector. It was fglrx which didn't get modelines from xorg.conf. Finally I gave up and bought DVI cable long enough to connect to DVI connector through which this monitor reported EDID information.

[zhenya_k]

Returned back to 9.10 (8.660)
vainfo lists profiles, however, mplayer doesn't work

MPlayer SVN-r30589-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2010 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 /media/500gb/Camcorder/001/001.m2ts.
TS file format detected.
VIDEO H264(pid=4113) AUDIO A52(pid=4352) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 1
FPS seems to be: 25.000000
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds5
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.
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 1440x1080 => 1920x1080 H.264 VA API Acceleration 
[vo_vaapi] Using 1:1 VA surface mapping
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
[AO_ALSA] Write error: Broken pipe 0.000   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 
[AO_ALSA] Trying to reset soundcard.
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2  9/  9 ??% ??% ??,?% 7 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 11/ 11 ??% ??% ??,?% 8 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 13/ 13 ??% ??% ??,?% 10 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 15/ 15 291% 51%  3.1% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 17/ 17 255% 49%  2.7% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 19/ 19 227% 47%  2.4% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 21/ 21 204% 45%  2.2% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 23/ 23 185% 43%  2.0% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 25/ 25 170% 43%  1.8% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 27/ 27 157% 42%  1.7% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 29/ 29 146% 42%  1.5% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2 31/ 31 136% 42%  1.4% 11 0 
[vo_vaapi] vaCopySurfaceGLX(): unknown libva error
xvba_video: error: Assertion failed in file xvba_decode.c at line 770

[gbeauche]

Returned back to 9.10 (8.660)
vainfo lists profiles, however, mplayer doesn't work

It would also be interesting if you could try with 9.12-HotFix. I don't think 9.10 had 64-bit fixes. Anyway, our Mobility Radeon HD 4650 never worked either and only 4870 is meant to be supported. The rest is a matter of being lucky or not with a specific driver...

[DivineGrace]

Hmm, this is weird because libva 0.31.0-sds9 + xvba-video 0.6.9 is not a combination that can work. i.e. that libva won't be able to load the new module, so mplayer won't work. Please report `vainfo' in your current configuration + ldd /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so + md5sum your debs.

Here is the output Gwenole:

[email protected]:~$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds4
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 - 0.6.8
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointIDCT
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointIDCT
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD


[email protected]:~$ ldd -v /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffe89ff000)
libva-0.31.0.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libva-0.31.0.4.so.1 (0x00007fcb07c5c000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x00007fcb07ac8000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fcb078c3000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fcb075bc000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00007fcb073aa000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007fcb071a1000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fcb06f85000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcb06d00000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcb0698d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcb07e95000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fcb06771000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fcb0656e000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007fcb06368000)

Version information:
/usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so:
libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libpthread.so.0
librt.so.1 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/librt.so.1
libdl.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libdl.so.2
libm.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libm.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libva-0.31.0.4.so.1:
libdl.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libdl.so.2
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1:
libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libpthread.so.0
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
/lib/libdl.so.2:
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6:
libdl.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libdl.so.2
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.2) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libXext.so.6:
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
/lib/librt.so.1:
libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libpthread.so.0
libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/libpthread.so.0
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.2) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/libc.so.6
/lib/libpthread.so.0:
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.2) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
/lib/libm.so.6:
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
/lib/libc.so.6:
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
/usr/lib/libxcb.so.1:
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.2) => /lib/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libXau.so.6:
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6:
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.4) => /lib/libc.so.6
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/libc.so.6

[gbeauche]

Here is the output Gwenole:

[email protected]:~$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds4
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 - 0.6.8
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointIDCT
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointIDCT
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD

Thanks but this doesn't match what you said in your previous post. To recap:
- use libva 0.31.0-1+sds9 for xvba-video <= 0.6.8
- use libva 0.31.0-1+sds10 for xvba-video > 0.6.9

Other combinations won't work without an xvba-video rebuild, but this is not Open Source, I am sorry.

[DivineGrace]

Thanks but this doesn't match what you said in your previous post. To recap:
- use libva 0.31.0-1+sds9 for xvba-video <= 0.6.8
- use libva 0.31.0-1+sds10 for xvba-video > 0.6.9

Other combinations won't work without an xvba-video rebuild, but this is not Open Source, I am sorry.

My apologies, mate. Here is the correct output:

[email protected]:~/Torrentz$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds5
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva error: dlopen of /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so failed: libva-0.31.0.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

This is on my notebook, squeeze amd64, mobility HD 2600, mplayer version 24-Feb-2010.

[gbeauche]

My apologies, mate. Here is the correct output:

[email protected]:~/Torrentz$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds5
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva error: dlopen of /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so failed: libva-0.31.0.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

This is on my notebook, squeeze amd64, mobility HD 2600, mplayer version 24-Feb-2010.

This fglrx_drv_video.so is not the one from xvba-video 0.6.9. It should be a symlink to xvba_drv_video.so. Could you check what /usr/lib/va/drivers/ looks like? Then, dpkg -r xvba-video, remove any stale /usr/lib/va/drivers/{fglrx,xvba}_drv_video.so and reinstall xvba-video 0.6.9.

It could be interesting to file -L /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so + md5sum that file, prior to reinstalling xvba-video 0.6.9.

[DivineGrace]

This fglrx_drv_video.so is not the one from xvba-video 0.6.9. It should be a symlink to xvba_drv_video.so. Could you check what /usr/lib/va/drivers/ looks like? Then, dpkg -r xvba-video, remove any stale /usr/lib/va/drivers/{fglrx,xvba}_drv_video.so and reinstall xvba-video 0.6.9.

It could be interesting to file -L /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so + md5sum that file, prior to reinstalling xvba-video 0.6.9.

Gwenole, you're correct. File properties indicate this:

Name: fglrx_drv_video.so
Link target: xvba_drv_video.so

In /usr/lib/va/drivers/ there exists dummy_drv_video.so, fglrx_drv_video.so (symlink) and xvba_drv_video.so.

I removed xvba-video, issued:

file -L /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
/usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so' (No such file or directory), reinstalled xvba-video, and

file -L /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
/usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

However, when I attempt to utilize libva with mplayer, no video is displayed and I receive this error message:

VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x720 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering, with reflection effects
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds4
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva error: dlopen of /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so failed: libva-0.31.0.5.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
[vo_vaapi] vaInitialize(): unknown libva error
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Any ideas?

[gbeauche]

VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x720 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering, with reflection effects
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds4
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva error: dlopen of /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so failed: libva-0.31.0.5.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
[vo_vaapi] vaInitialize(): unknown libva error
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Any ideas?

You now have xvba-video 0.6.9 correctly installed but it seems you (i) either don't have libva 0.31.0-1+sds1 installed, or (ii) don't have the amd64 package of it installed, or you are not using an amd64 version of MPlayer.

The whole chain must be 32-bit or 64-bit. Though, you can install both if you rebuild libva properly, and make sure to have /usr/lib64/va/drivers and /usr/lib/va/drivers/.

[DivineGrace]

You now have xvba-video 0.6.9 correctly installed but it seems you (i) either don't have libva 0.31.0-1+sds1 installed, or (ii) don't have the amd64 package of it installed, or you are not using an amd64 version of MPlayer.

The whole chain must be 32-bit or 64-bit. Though, you can install both if you rebuild libva properly, and make sure to have /usr/lib64/va/drivers and /usr/lib/va/drivers/.

Pure AMD64 build here, mate. What is strange is that with Cat 9.10, Squeeze amd64, mobile HD 2600, with xvba-video 0.6.9, libva version 0.31.0-sds4, I hear audio but see no video with 720p or 1080p videos.
After switching to xvba-video 0.6.8, everything works perfectly.

This weekend, I'll try my desktop with HD 3300 and HD 3870 on Jaunty and try the newest libva and xvba-video.