Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

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Author: Jim via PLUG-discuss
Date:  
To: z via PLUG-discuss
CC: Jim
Subject: Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg
I wanted to take advantage of the hardware acceleration when encoding
video.  Would Mesa allow this?

On 4/5/24 15:11, z via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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
> <>:
>
>     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  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/ 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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