Mesa Gallium3D Pipe-Video Has Landed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa Gallium3D Pipe-Video Has Landed

As expected, Christian König has pushed the Gallium3D pipe-video work into the mainline Mesa repository, which will be one of the big features to be introduced in Mesa 7.12/8.0 release, not the forthcoming Mesa 7.11...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTY2OQ

[sgcb]

so I'm a noob...

How do I use this? Is it usable? mplayer -vo vdpau complains that it can't find libvdpau_nvidia.so even though I'm running r600g

[chrisr]

mplayer -vo vdpau complains that it can't find libvdpau_nvidia.so even though I'm running r600g

I'm no expert, but I think libvdpau is hardcoded to use the "nvidia" back-end unless you override it by setting the VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable.

I think you want to try something like:

$ VDPAU_DRIVER=r600 vdpauinfo

[droste]

you need to set an environment variable:

VDPAU_DRIVER=r600 mplayer

[orzel]

The x11 overlay contains a 'live' ebuild media-libs/mesa-9999, but it doesn't (yet?) set the proper flags. You need to add
myconf+="--enable-xvmc --enable-vdpau"
just before the econf line
(then, don't forget to update the manifest using 'repoman manifest').

With those settings i now have some new files installed on my r600 system:
/usr/lib64/libXvMCr600.so*
/usr/lib64/libXvMCsoftpipe.so*
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so*
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_softpipe.so*

As said previously, you need to set the env var VDPAU_DRIVER to your card (here : 'r600').
vdpauinfo and mplayer wont see the vdpau stuff until i also set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/vdpau

With all of this, i have the following results

• vdpauinfo fails with "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
• mplayer -vo vdpau manages to display the video, but it has lot of problems, such as printing "[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_output_surface_put_bits_indexed: No backend implementation could be loaded.", having a green line at the bottom of the video, and using as much CPU as usual. So i guess it's a failure too, but i wonder about the green line.. ?
• using mplayer -vo xvmc fails with "vo_xvmc: No X-Video MotionCompensation Extension on :0"

[sgcb]

Right, VDPAU_DRIVER=r600 is working here as well, thanks As long as the linker can see libvdpau_r600.so which is installed to /usr/local/lib/vdpau on my system.

This looks pretty good. Also I've noticed that changing to fullscreen does not keep the original source video's aspect like other video output drivers. Instead, video is stretched to cover the entire screen. And I too am seeing the vdp_output_surface_put_bits_indexed and vdp_output_surface_render_output_surface errors orzel mentions.

Regardless, Christian König is one awesome dude for all his work on the open source graphics stack!

[mastereye]

Does that mean that R300 will get VDPAU, too?

[smitty3268]

Is there a blog post or wiki page anywhere that goes over the current status of this?

As in, which codecs does it support? What are the limitations? Does it provide full h.264L5 support? h.263? Does it fall back to using the CPU in certain cases? What kind of performance does it provide?

This might be a good topic for Phoronix to handle, but it's a fairly large subject so it might be too much for Michael.

[Azpegath]

The x11 overlay contains a 'live' ebuild media-libs/mesa-9999, but it doesn't (yet?) set the proper flags. You need to add
myconf+="--enable-xvmc --enable-vdpau"
just before the econf line
(then, don't forget to update the manifest using 'repoman manifest').

With those settings i now have some new files installed on my r600 system:
/usr/lib64/libXvMCr600.so*
/usr/lib64/libXvMCsoftpipe.so*
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so*
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_softpipe.so*

As said previously, you need to set the env var VDPAU_DRIVER to your card (here : 'r600').
vdpauinfo and mplayer wont see the vdpau stuff until i also set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/vdpau

With all of this, i have the following results

• vdpauinfo fails with "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
• mplayer -vo vdpau manages to display the video, but it has lot of problems, such as printing "[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_output_surface_put_bits_indexed: No backend implementation could be loaded.", having a green line at the bottom of the video, and using as much CPU as usual. So i guess it's a failure too, but i wonder about the green line.. ?
• using mplayer -vo xvmc fails with "vo_xvmc: No X-Video MotionCompensation Extension on :0"

Thanks, this is great for us Gentoo users. I'll check it out next time I have the chance!

On another note: 19 000 lines of code!?!? That's insane.

[darkbasic]

Thanks, this is great for us Gentoo users. I'll check it out next time I have the chance!

It's already in the x11 overlay mesa ebuild!