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<p>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?</p>
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<p>Thanks<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/5/24 15:37, Ryan Petris via
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>If you're wanting hardware video acceleration you can also
install the following packages:<br>
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<div>mesa-va-drivers<br>
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<div>vdpau-driver-all<br>
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<div>Those are listed on this wiki page: <a
href="https://wiki.debian.org/HardwareVideoAcceleration"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.debian.org/HardwareVideoAcceleration</a><br>
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<div>On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, at 3:29 PM, z via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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<div><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">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.</span><br>
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<p>Apr 5, 2024 15:11:16 z via PLUG-discuss
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org"><plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org></a>:<br>
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<div><span dir="ltr"
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">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.</span>
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<div><span dir="ltr"
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">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.</span> <br>
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<div><span dir="ltr"
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">Zack</span><br>
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<p>Apr 5, 2024 14:43:44 Jim via PLUG-discuss
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<p>Today the Radeon RX580 graphics card I bought
arrived. To get the drivers for the card, I went here<br>
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<p><span style="text-wrap-mode:wrap;"><a
class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amd.com/en/support"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.amd.com/en/support</a>
where I downloaded <span
style="text-wrap-mode:wrap;">amdgpu-install_6.0.60002-1_all.deb</span></span><br>
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<p><span style="text-wrap-mode:wrap;"><span
style="text-wrap-mode:wrap;">Next I started
following the instructions at <a
class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</a>
then I started running into problems.</span></span><br>
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<p>amdgpu-install --vulkan=amdvlk,pro gave me 2 errors:<br>
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<p>E: Unable to locate package vulkan-amdgpu-pro and the
same for vulkan-amdgpu-pro:i386<br>
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<p>I kept going and entered amdgpu-install -y
--usecase=workstation<br>
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<p>That returned the errors Unable to locate package
amdgpu-pro and amdgpu-pro-lib32<br>
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<p>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<code>:</code><br>
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<p><code><span class="font"
style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">ffmpeg
-i input.mp4 -c:v h264_amf -c:a copy output.mp4<br>
<br>
That gave me several errors. The first one was
[h264_amf @ 0x562e1f855380] DLL libamfrt64.so.1
failed to open</span></code></p>
<p><code><span class="font"
style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">So
I tried sudo updatedb and locate libamfrt64.so.1
which returned nothing. That told me the file
wasn't there.</span></code><br>
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<p><code><span class="font"
style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I
tried to transcode a file with Handbrake but it
didn't show h264_amf among the available codec
options.</span></code><br>
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<p><code><span class="font"
style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I
tried searching for how to install libamfrt64.so.1
but all I got was references to steps I already
tried.</span></code><br>
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<p><code><span class="font"
style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Did
I make a mistake somwhere or does AMD need to fix
something?</span></code><br>
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<p><code><span class="font"
style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Thank
for your help.</span></code><br>
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<p><code><span class="font"
style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Jim</span></code><br>
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