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
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 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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