Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

>     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
>     |