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

[zelda32]

Well, eventually, i chose to compiled mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Runs flawlessly now with gl2 driver .

[evolution]

To mr.gbeauche:

I've just upgraded my xvba-video to your new "final" 0.7.6 version (4th November 2010)... With Catalyst 10.10 + xorg server 1.9.2, I saw some "significant" improvements compared to last xvba-video versions + Catalyst beyond 10.7 when playing H264 videos (they're not garbled anymore at least... , but still, they are playing too much slow in my HD2600 mobility card).

Your new xvba-video version works well with xorg-server 1.8.2 + Catalyst 10.7

Cheers

[gbeauche]

I've just upgraded my xvba-video to your new "final" 0.7.6 version (4th November 2010)... With Catalyst 10.10 + xorg server 1.9.2, I saw some "significant" improvements compared to last xvba-video versions + Catalyst beyond 10.7 when playing H264 videos (they're not garbled anymore at least... ,

This is strange, there were no further changes that could affect you between 0.7.6.pre3 and 0.7.6. i.e. nothing that is enabled by default.

[evolution]

To gbeauche:

Yes, this is a bit strange... Btw, I'll wait for next Catalyst releases, it might be possible they fix the H264 XvBA decoding on Linux (again)...
Right now, I'll stick with Xorg 1.8.2 + Catalyst 10.7 until the problem is solved (will it be solved? IdK!)... (Arch Linux still have Xorg 1.8 repos avaiable )

p.s.: If you need an extra volunteer to test XvBA video decoding, right now I've 3 Radeon HD series cards in my computers (a HD2600 in my personal laptop (which I'm using most of the time), a HD4650 in my personal desktop (AGP) and a HD3650 in my work laptop).

Cheers

[Nognir]

I'm using Debian Squeeze, installed the fglrx-driver from the repos, manually installed xvba-video from gbeauche's repo, install libva but still no hardware acceleration, a 1080p causes the cpu to jump to 65-70% of usage (Windows 7 on the same machine, is 15-20%). I've also installed mplayer and ffmpeg from debian-multimedia, but to no avail. My card is a Mobility Radeeon 540v, linux catalyst recognizes as 4500 series. Any help?

[Kano]

You need mplayer with vaapi patches, no normal mplayer.

[DivineGrace]

This is strange, there were no further changes that could affect you between 0.7.6.pre3 and 0.7.6. i.e. nothing that is enabled by default.

I've tested the newest xvba-video_0.7.6-1-amd64 on my usual hardware, and can report success with all three! Thank you!

[javonera]

Hi. I'm having trouble with aceleration, with 720 and 1080 videos.
This has been happening with every catalyst version I tested so far (everyone since february).
To start mplayer I'm using "mplayer -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi"

Here a screenshot:



My system:
Arch x86_64
Catalyst 10.11
mplayer-vaapi 32669
xvba-video 0.7.6

Here's log from mplayer,

Warning unknown option device at line 5
MPlayer SVN-r32669-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
161 audio & 345 video codecs
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 series/the walking dead/The.Walking.Dead.S01E01.Days.Gone.Bye.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv.
libavformat file format detected.
[matroska,webm @ 0x2dd0570] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[lavf] stream 0: audio (ac3), -aid 0
[lavf] stream 1: video (h264), -vid 0
VIDEO:  [H264]  1280x720  0bpp  24.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
SUB: Added subtitle file (1): series/the walking dead/The.Walking.Dead.S01E01.Days.Gone.Bye.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.srt
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering
libva: libva version 0.31.1
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/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, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 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] 1280x720 => 1280x720 H.264 VA-API Acceleration 
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.

vainfo

libva: libva version 0.31.1
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/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 - 0.7.6
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointIDCT
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointIDCT
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

I also tried with a VC-1 video, but the output is as corrupted as with x264.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

[javonera]

Forgot to mention my video card :P HD5850

[gbeauche]

Forgot to mention my video card :P HD5850

See earlier in the thread. Basically, download & build hwdecode-demos. Then, I want the console & window output for each of the following command.
$ XVBA_VIDEO_DEBUG=1 ./vaapi_h264
$ XVBA_VIDEO_DEBUG=1 ./vaapi_h264 --glx
$ XVBA_VIDEO_DEBUG=1 XVBA_VIDEO_EVERGREEN_WORKAROUND=0 ./vaapi_h264
$ XVBA_VIDEO_DEBUG=1 XVBA_VIDEO_EVERGREEN_WORKAROUND=0 ./vaapi_h264 --glx