Thanks.  That will give me something to look into over the weekend. On 4/5/24 17:34, Ryan Petris wrote: > There's likely some setting you have to enable or change to enable > hardware acceleration. You'll probably have to poke around or google > for that as I'm not that familiar with those settings in Handbrake. > > That said, depending on what you're trying to do, you may just want to > use CPU encoding anyway. You have a lot more control over what the > final product looks like with CPU encoding that you do hardware > encoding. With hardware encoding you can give it some parameters but > ultimately you get whatever the encoder spits out, while you have many > more knobs to turn for CPU encoding. You'll spend more time encoding > but you'll likely end up with a better quality and smaller file with > CPU encoding. > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, at 4:42 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> >> 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 >>>> >>>> : >>>> >>>> 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| >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >