Radeon UVD Support Merged Into Mesa

[Vim_User]

Well I can confirm that we are still working on it, but can't say anything when or even if we are ever able to release it.

Cheers,
Christian.

Is it in legal review or are you working on the code? Hope that I can see this getting released.

[Deathsimple]

I use RS780 and RS880. Any news regarding these?

Thanks and have a nice day

Well I can confirm that we are still working on it, but can't say anything when or even if we are ever able to release it.

Cheers,
Christian.

[AnonymousCoward]

Any progress with UVD on RV770/RV790?

I use RS780 and RS880. Any news regarding these?

Thanks and have a nice day

[Kano]

Basically you could even try UVD in live mode with Kanotix Dragonfire Linuxtag Special iso.

[duby229]

Yeah that is true for upstream kernels. Some distro's did back port it to 3.9 though. gentoo-sources for example has it starting at 3.9.2

[agd5f]

a) The kernel is too old and does not contain UVD support (it was introduced in 3.9 IIRC)

For UVD support you need kernel 3.10.

[droste]

You're currently not using UVD. It's probably a kernel problem:

a) The kernel is too old and does not contain UVD support (it was introduced in 3.9 IIRC)
b) The firmware for UVD is missing ( http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ ). You need an updated SUMO_rlc.bin and SUMO_uvd.bin
c) The radeon kernel driver is built as an module is loaded via initrd/initramfs --> the initrd is missing the firmware mentioned in b)

[renkin]

no decode abilities

AMD A8-3530MX APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
 product: BeaverCreek [Mobility Radeon HD 6620G]

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD SUMO
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-36ffd08)
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-36ffd08)
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

/. vdpauinfo 
display: :0   screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0

Video surface:

name   width height types
-------------------------------------------
420    16384 16384  NV12 YV12 
422    16384 16384  NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV 
444    16384 16384  NV12 YV12 Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 

[COLOR="#FF0000"]Decoder capabilities:

name               level macbs width height
-------------------------------------------
MPEG1                16 1048576 16384 16384
MPEG2_SIMPLE         16 1048576 16384 16384
MPEG2_MAIN           16 1048576 16384 16384[/COLOR]

Can anyone tell me why I'm not getting all the UVD goodies? I can only decode the older formats according to vdpauinfo

[pheldens]

Thanks it works for me on HD4670, full HD h264 video at 1-2% cpu ;p

tip: make sure you dont use mplayer -vf in your config or it will error.

The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[h264_vdpau @ 0x7fef86ef8040]decode_slice_header error
[h264_vdpau @ 0x7fef86ef8040]no frame!
Error while decoding frame!

mplayer:
mplayer -noconfig all -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau ,ffvc1vdpau %f


kernel:
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE RV710_uvd.bin R700_rlc.bin

mesa:
./configure --with-dri-drivers= --disable-gallium-radeon --enable-gallium-r600 --enable-vdpau

[upalmin]

UVD on RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]

We removed the RV770 firmware image from the download side and the related RV770 code from the patches, because they currently doesn't work.

The RS780, RS880 and RV770 chipset generations have some differences in their UVD block which needs to be handled first before we can release any code for them. R6xx have similar (but still different) issues.

I think I'm on a good way of solving that, but can't promise anything.

Cheers,
Christian.

Any progress with UVD on RV770/RV790?

I am sad owner of Radeon HD 4850.

Thanks
Uro?