The New & Improved Features Of The Linux 4.19 Kernel

[HenryM]

In the meanwhile, I still can't encode H.264 with my Vega card...

It's like they almost completely stopped work on VCE 4.0 as soon as VCN hit Phoronix.

Shouldn't VAEntrypointEncSlice mean that encoding is supported?

I don't entirely understand the situation, but I'm pretty sure x264 has AMD hardware support: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ration#Formats

VP8 and VP9 appear to lack support (WHY???), and that seems to be causing problems with the new Panorama UI in CS:GO...

[kenjitamura]

Get a little excited every time I see mention of 802.11ax. 802.11g to 802.11n was a big improvement leap but it felt like 802.11n to 802.11ac was more minor; from talk about 802.11ax it seems as though it'll be another decent leap in performance.

[tildearrow]

That's what I see from vainfo for my Vega 56:

vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 18.1.6 for Radeon RX Vega (VEGA10, DRM 3.25.0, 4.17.0-3-amd64, LLVM 6.0.1)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc

Shouldn't VAEntrypointEncSlice mean that encoding is supported?

I only see an encode slice for HEVCMain in my case...

error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.2 (libva 2.2.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 18.1.7 for Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (VEGA10, DRM 3.26.0, 4.18.4-
artix1-1-ARTIX, LLVM 6.0.1)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
     VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
     VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

(or is it that I have a faulty setup, or Vega FE only supports HEVC encode as a result of being a pre-mainstream-Vega card?)

[agd5f]

Vega10 supports H.265 and h.264 encode. It does not support VP9. See this page for details of what features are supported on what asics:

https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/