Major AMD Catalyst Linux Update Expected Next Week

[fritsch]

There is no need at all to use VAAPI with the opensource drivers. We talked to christian k?nig and he asked us to continue to use VDPAU as this is what the OSS drivers should use and are tested. VAAPI implementation was done to show alternatives to intel hardware, while choosing AMD.

Only thing VAAPI could be interesting is for very old amd gpus that don't implement VDPAU with interop properly. IIRC you are an owner of such a card - I am not. So @nille: What's the status of VAAPI on (old) AMD hardware? :-)

[nanonyme]

There is no need at all to use VAAPI with the opensource drivers. We talked to christian k?nig and he asked us to continue to use VDPAU as this is what the OSS drivers should use and are tested. VAAPI implementation was done to show alternatives to intel hardware, while choosing AMD.

Only thing VAAPI could be interesting is for very old amd gpus that don't implement VDPAU with interop properly. IIRC you are an owner of such a card - I am not. So @nille: What's the status of VAAPI on (old) AMD hardware? :-)

I thought the main point of VAAPI was that of VDPAU doesn't support Wayland.

[Nille]

Only thing VAAPI could be interesting is for very old amd gpus that don't implement VDPAU with interop properly. IIRC you are an owner of such a card - I am not. So @nille: What's the status of VAAPI on (old) AMD hardware? :-)

Kodi don't want to use it.

[fritsch]

Kodi don't want to use it.

Have seen the patch I linked? Use that one, which I pushed to kodi main repo some hours ago and the following advancedsettings.xlm:

<!-- ~/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml -->
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<forcevaapienabled>true</forcevaapienabled>
</video>
</advancedsettings>

[Cyber Killer]

I'm not interested much in new features, I only want 2 things:
1. stop the friggin graphics glitches all over my KDE desktop
2. stop the system crashing in various games (X3 for example)

I'd take these 2 fixes over any amount of opencl or vaapi any day.

[Nille]

Have seen the patch I linked?

Its compiling, but it need some time the device is not the fastest.

[Nille]

Have seen the patch I linked?

So for the FOSS driver. With the driver from oibaf, kodi and mpv segault in a instant. vainfo report that there is the vdpau backend at work so i compiled mesa by myself. with this, mpv works and kodi works too but he still use the software decoder. he comes with the meassage that i have to blame the driver vendor if it fails and close the vaapi decoder.

WARNING: VAAPI was not tested on your hardware / driver stack: x.org. If it will crash and burn complain with your gpu vendor.
DEBUG: VAAPI - open decoder
DEBUG: CGUIInfoManager::SetCurrentMovie(/media/nille/UUI/EVE Online - This is War.mp4)
DEBUG: VAAPI - initialize version 0.36
DEBUG: VAAPI - driver in use: mesa gallium vaapi
DEBUG: VAAPI - profile 0
DEBUG: VAAPI - profile 1
DEBUG: VAAPI - profile 10
DEBUG: VAAPI - profile 5
DEBUG: VAAPI - profile 6
DEBUG: VAAPI - profile 7
NOTICE: VAAPI::Close

PS: Die Compiling guides for kodi are outdated. the ppa with the required packages are over 2 years old oO

[fritsch]

Current compile guides are in the doc directory. Cool then it opens at least :-)

You can turn on component logging under System -> Settings -> Debugging, but It won't probably print anything else.

[Nille]

Current compile guides are in the doc directory. Cool then it opens at least :-)

You can turn on component logging under System -> Settings -> Debugging, but It won't probably print anything else.

Video and ffmpeg was turned on

Kodi Debug log

[fritsch]

Video and ffmpeg was turned on

Kodi Debug log

From reading the code vaQueryDisplayAttributes fails and we cannot init the decoder.