Thanks Ryan for the advice. You mentioned the mesa and vdpau drivers
for hardware video acceleration. I'm testing handbrake now by having it
transcode the same video (25 minutes) and same settings I mentioned
earlier. ( H264 1440x1080 to 640x480). This time it's also using around
95% of the cpu and transcoding at around 80 fps. Is it using the
hardware acceleration?
Thanks
On 4/5/24 15:37, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Yeah, I wouldn't use the proprietary AMD drivers. Jim, undo whatever
it is that you did with the amdgpu-pro drivers and install the
"xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu" (if you're on debian or a debian based
distro, which I assume you are based on the mentioning of a deb
package) and restart. That should be all you need.
If you're wanting hardware video acceleration you can also install the
following packages:
mesa-va-drivers
vdpau-driver-all
Those are listed on this wiki page:
https://wiki.debian.org/HardwareVideoAcceleration
On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, at 3:29 PM, z via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I also don't think I made it clear that mesa is probably better than
the proprietary AMD drivers on linux. The same is untrue on NVIDIA.
Apr 5, 2024 15:11:16 z via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:
Do you truly need proprietary drivers? That card is one of the
best supported by open source software. So I would just install
mesa, which should be easily installed from your distro's package
manager, if it's not installed already.
Assuming you do need proprietary, maybe try a reboot if you
haven't already? It's giving a missing binary error and sometimes
I get those after a kernel update and not rebooting.
Zack
Apr 5, 2024 14:43:44 Jim via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:
Today the Radeon RX580 graphics card I bought arrived. To
get the drivers for the card, I went here
https://www.amd.com/en/support
<https://www.amd.com/en/support> where I downloaded
amdgpu-install_6.0.60002-1_all.deb
Next I started following the instructions at
https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
<https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> then I
started running into problems.
amdgpu-install --vulkan=amdvlk,pro gave me 2 errors:
E: Unable to locate package vulkan-amdgpu-pro and the same
for vulkan-amdgpu-pro:i386
I kept going and entered amdgpu-install -y --usecase=workstation
That returned the errors Unable to locate package amdgpu-pro
and amdgpu-pro-lib32
With the error messages I figured I'd have problems, but I
tried to find out if I could use the hardware acceleration so
I entered|:|
|ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v h264_amf -c:a copy output.mp4
That gave me several errors. The first one was [h264_amf @
0x562e1f855380] DLL libamfrt64.so.1 failed to open|
|So I tried sudo updatedb and locate libamfrt64.so.1 which
returned nothing. That told me the file wasn't there.|
|I tried to transcode a file with Handbrake but it didn't
show h264_amf among the available codec options.|
|I tried searching for how to install libamfrt64.so.1 but all
I got was references to steps I already tried.|
|Did I make a mistake somwhere or does AMD need to fix
something?|
|Thank for your help.|
|Jim|
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