[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2 0/8] The 2nd version for UVD HEVC encode

[Mark Thompson]

On 16/02/18 17:53, James Zhu wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I couldn't reproduce the issue on my Polaris 11 to run mpv / ffmpeg about 1.5 hours.
> 
> one terminal run:
> 
> ffmpeg -y -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel_output_format vaapi -i video/Mr.Right.mp4 -an -c:v hevc_vaapi -bf 0 out.mp4
> 
> the other  terminal run:
> 
> mpv --fs --loop --no-audio --vo gpu --gpu-context=x11egl --hwdec=vaapi video/Mr.Right.mp4
> But it has some failure with vaDeriveImage. I am not  sure if this failure matters, the video still can play without any other error,

If it's calling vaDeriveImage() at all that suggests it isn't using the proper interop path, and may be falling back to software decode.  This should work in recent versions of mpv with git Mesa and libva - maybe have a look at the verbose output and see what it's actually doing?

> mpv --fs --loop --no-audio --vo vaapi  --hwdec=vaapi video/Mr.Right.mp4
> 
> No error reported with this command line.

I haven't tried the legacy VAAPI test output, I'll try later to see if that also triggers the failure for me.


I don't think that this sort of issue should block the patches in Mesa because it looks likely that it is a kernel issue somehow - userspace shouldn't be able to nuke the GPU at all.  Still, the feature is essentially unusable for me because of this problem, and I imagine it will apply to at least some other people with setups which are match mine in some way as yet unknown.

Thanks,

- Mark