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

[eldar]

With the new Cat 10.12 driver for Windows there are OpenCL functions covering video decoding.
Are these functions a standard that can be used (maybe in the future) with other vendors gpus, too?
Will this replace the XvBA library?

\bin\x86\OVDecode.dll
\include\OVDecode\OVDecode.h
\include\OVDecode\OVDecodeTypes.h
\lib\x86\OVDecode.lib

Does it mean that OpenCL is capable of providing a low level backend for video acceleration? I'm deciding now which GPU to buy ATI or NVIDIA, and one of the things that hold me off from ATI, is the lack of VDPAU which was recently used in accelerating Flash videos. It is quite frustrating to watch them being real slow while Windows has no such issues. Now since OpenCL provides primitives for video acceleration, is it possible to implement VDPAU API on top of OpenCL. VDPAU is an open API as it is stated on the wikipedia page, and there are even sources available. Is it feasible to do so? (I could even try doing it myself, but sadly I have no experience working with video-codecs whatsoever).

[popper]

Can you test xvba-video 0.7.7.pre2. If it works, I will make it final and switch to 0.8.x-series for probably OVDECODE_API.

Interesting

if you Just Happen to also add the ability to pass these decoded OVD_NV12_INTERLEAVED_AMD = 1, // NV12 Linear Interleaved frames to a pipe or whatever for feeding directly to x264/FFmpeg etc as a quick generic Test option , that would be a 'VERY GOOD Thing' in the long term too Perhaps

[LinuxID10T]

Are you already enjoying it? :P You never really shut your mouth, do you? LOL

[LinuxID10T]

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Q, that is.

[Qaridarium]

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"Q, that is. "

i really shoult shot myself in the heat for not shut up my mouth,,,

[LinuxID10T]

"Q, that is. "

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[Qaridarium]

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i'm innocent ....

[evolution]

So UVD1 cards are fucked for vaapi? I've been trying to get vaapi working with my hd2600 with mplayer-vaapi and vlc and ended up with the same libraries as you but unfortunately my output is always totally garbled.

Yes it is...

This problem is also happening on Windows 7... I don't know what happened to recent ATI drivers, but this card in the decoded H264 and VC-1 videos properly on Windows Vista / Windows 7 before. Now, it doesn't (in both Windows and linux Catalyst drivers...).
With relative recent versions of xvba-video and Catalyst Linux 10.x (between Catalyst 10.4 and Catalyst 10.7), we could decode videos properly with a UVD1 card. Now (with catalyst 10.8-10.12), nothing.

Cheers

p.s.: Btw, UVD2 cards (HD4xxx and higher) seem to work properly with recent Catalysts... (Tested on my desktop's HD4650, with Catalyst 10.12)

[bwat47]

Yes it is...

This problem is also happening on Windows 7... I don't know what happened to recent ATI drivers, but this card in the decoded H264 and VC-1 videos properly on Windows Vista / Windows 7 before. Now, it doesn't (in both Windows and linux Catalyst drivers...).
With relative recent versions of xvba-video and Catalyst Linux 10.x (between Catalyst 10.4 and Catalyst 10.7), we could decode videos properly with a UVD1 card. Now (with catalyst 10.8-10.12), nothing.

Cheers

p.s.: Btw, UVD2 cards (HD4xxx and higher) seem to work properly with recent Catalysts... (Tested on my desktop's HD4650, with Catalyst 10.12)

Yeah I was just reading on another forum in a thread about the windows driver that a lot of people were getting green garbled playback flash videos like I got with vaapi in linux.

[Green]

Starting from (xvba-video_0.7.7.pre1-1_i386), ASS Karaoke effects used in conjunction with plain ASS subtitles, cause the plain ASS subtitles to flicker like crazy. This is on a HD4830, Ubuntu 10.10, Catalyst 10.11, & mplayer-vaapi-20100713.

The subtitle flickering is not present using (xvba-video_0.7.6-1_i386).