AMD Publishes New Code For Open-Source VCE Video Encode

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Publishes New Code For Open-Source VCE Video Encode

AMD has published a second version of their open-source Linux driver code for exposing the "VCE" video engine on modern Radeon GPUs under Linux via OpenMAX for accelerated H.264 video encoding...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTYwMTE

[pumahove]

Is this more likely to be supported by HandBrake than Intel Quick Sync?

[brent]

Is this more likely to be supported by HandBrake than Intel Quick Sync?

VCE at least uses a standard API, so I'd say yes. It's not a proprietary single-vendor interface like VA-API, so a backend would possibly work on more hardware.

[oleid]

Is this more likely to be supported by HandBrake than Intel Quick Sync?

I don't have Intel Hardware with that very feature, however, from what I'm reading the Intel HW encoding stuff should be supported via vaapi which in turn is supported e.g. via gstreamer. OpenMAX, which is the encoding interface of choice for the radeon driver, is supported via gstreamer, too.

The following page lists gstreamer as dependency,

https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CompileOnLinux

however only for the GUI. The encoding seems to be done via the corresponding software libraries directly. Thus, there will be no radeon hw encoding support for handbrake in near future.

Maybe you could try this one, http://www.transcoder.org/ -- it uses gstreamer for the encoding stuff.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I don't have Intel Hardware with that very feature, however, from what I'm reading the Intel HW encoding stuff should be supported via vaapi which in turn is supported e.g. via gstreamer. OpenMAX, which is the encoding interface of choice for the radeon driver, is supported via gstreamer, too.

The following page lists gstreamer as dependency,

https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CompileOnLinux

however only for the GUI. The encoding seems to be done via the corresponding software libraries directly. Thus, there will be no radeon hw encoding support for handbrake in near future.

Maybe you could try this one, http://www.transcoder.org/ -- it uses gstreamer for the encoding stuff.

Considering Handbrake's Gstreamer libs are old I'd imagine they'd have to do some updating and that is what happens with software.

[griffous]

Deciding?

I've seen a lot of news recently about VCE, but what is the current state of play for hardware offloaded decoding ? Under Debian, I understand the necessary mesa libs still have a ways to go for even basic VDPAU integration.

Is that right? Does anyone have any up to date information on open source h265 decoding in hardware?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[oleid]

Considering Handbrake's Gstreamer libs are old I'd imagine they'd have to do some updating and that is what happens with software.

Sure. But they'd have to update it in a way, that they use gstreamer also for encoding, not only for decoding.

[Pontostroy]

hardware offloaded decoding ?

It works fine with DRi_PRIME

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67283

[agd5f]

I've seen a lot of news recently about VCE, but what is the current state of play for hardware offloaded decoding ? Under Debian, I understand the necessary mesa libs still have a ways to go for even basic VDPAU integration.

Decoding using VDPAU for UVD works fine. You'll need a relatively recent version of mesa. 10.0.x or 10.1.x should be fine.

[pumahove]

I don't have Intel Hardware with that very feature, however, from what I'm reading the Intel HW encoding stuff should be supported via vaapi which in turn is supported e.g. via gstreamer. OpenMAX, which is the encoding interface of choice for the radeon driver, is supported via gstreamer, too.

The following page lists gstreamer as dependency,

https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CompileOnLinux

however only for the GUI. The encoding seems to be done via the corresponding software libraries directly. Thus, there will be no radeon hw encoding support for handbrake in near future.

Maybe you could try this one, http://www.transcoder.org/ -- it uses gstreamer for the encoding stuff.

Thank you. I'll check out that Arista transcoder. I hope it supports extracting the subtitles from DVDs and Blu-rays and either including them as subtitle tracks or burned in. I'm looking for an all in one type software.

Any rumors of AMD making patches for HandBrake though? I remember reading some years ago where they helped with OpenCL patches.