Is it possible for openglhq to work with catalyst amd. Video acceleration api va api is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by intel video decode and presentation api for unix vdpau is. Nouveau opensource driver supports both vaapi and vdpau. Install ati driver from amd web site to many howtos in web. If you have a radeonhd 4000series or newer, you have uvd2. That package is not listed in synaptic, but, there is xvba va driver. A year later, in november of 2009, amd and splitted desktop systems released a va api frontend to xvba so that va api multimedia applications could seamlessly use xvba with the catalyst driver. First thing you should do is confirm your video hardware is even capable of video playback acceleration.
Prepare installation media a usb dvdrom drive or a usb flash drive of at least 2gb should be used as installation media download linux mint 17. Install sudo aptget install xvbavadriver libvaglx1 libvax111 vainfo and command vainfo should give you. Unfortunately, even with the latest catalyst linux driver, the xvba video support there still can be buggy at times. Aug 27, 2016 how to install and configure graphics drivers in linux.
It uses the gpu to accelerate video processing in order to offload the cpu. Jun 18, 2015 fresh player plugin was updated recently with support for hardware accelerated video decoding via va api and vdpau, along with video capture support alsa, jack, pulseaudio and other improvements. Alternatively, the video application may also choose to render to an opengl surface and apply texturing. Video acceleration api is a successor to xvmc, providing partial and full hardware offloading of video decoding.
Craving acceptable video playback and nothing more, armed. It seems that at this point the best option for this ati card is the open source driver, which works with these cards. In those cases, it is recommended to start the livecd with the vesa driver same driver for all video cards. I use my htpc primarily for video playback, watching high definition movies and series. To enable vide hardware acceleration run terminal and enter. You have to build xvbavideo package and install mplayervaapi available. The open source driver for intels chipsets comes as part of the. Supported hardware includes intel hd graphics and g45 chipsets and newer as well as amd radeon gpus theres also a nvidia vdpau backend for vaapi. I have an nvidia card using vdpau with the proprietary driver, so im not sure what options there are for hardware accelerated video on ati cards. Unfortunately there are cases neither free or nonfree drivers will produce a working desktop. Xvba api allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process to the gpu video hardware. By default ubuntu uses the open source radeon driver for cards.
Then just rebuild against that spec rpmbuild ba libvaxvbadriver. The va api video acceleration api enables hardware accelerated video decodeencode at various entrypoints vld, idct, motion compensation etc. I compiled my own version from your repo on github which had both vaapi and xvba, i could experiment with that version in the weekend, and provide the. At least though xvba is now usable to assist in the. Debian details of package libfglrxamdxvba1 in jessie. Feb 06, 2014 acknowledgement sent to mathieu malaterre. Is it possible for openglhq to work with catalyst amd drivers. Video acceleration api va api is an open source software library libva and. X video bitstream acceleration xvba, designed by amd for its ati radeon gpu and fusion apu, is an arbitrary extension of the x video extension xv for the x window system on linux operatingsystems. Xvba video decode acceleration through vaapi and only for radeonhd 4x00 cards and later. You need to change the spec hardcoded %define to 0. Newer amd gpus designed with gcn technology graphics core next should use. This is a fairly newexperimental feature at the time of this writing, so it may require rebuilding mesa. Our unique concept of sales, service, storage and detailing is tailormade to the enthusiast automotive lifestyle.
As you can see in one of my previous posts, i have an ati graphics card in my htpc. Xvba is designed to expose the video acceleration capabilities offered by the radeon unified video decoder uvd but has seen only limited adoption of xvba by linux multimedia applications. Not sure if this is the right place to post this was unable to post to guide section but i put together the following guide for installing xbmc on a lubuntu 12. The opensource gallium driver xserverxorgvideoradeon performs well 3dwise. An anonymous reader writes amd has open sourced xvideo bitstream acceleration, their api by which they expose the universal video decoder 2 gpu under linux. Maybe you all can give me some pointers with this issue. How to install xbmc pvr xvba for amdnvidiaintel gpus. Craving acceptable video playback and nothing more, armed with 11. Both of them use gpu accelerated video decoding and give. Dec 14, 2011 that, however, has changed as xbmc has implemented xvba support with the xvba va driver wrapper having fallen into disrepair.
My notebook has an intel arrandale gpu which works fine with intels open source video driver and can decode h264 hd through vaapi just fine. Xbmc project implements amd xvba interface phoronix. Gallium3d vdpau open source driver the open source 3d mesa driver now implements acceleration through a vdpauvaapi wrapper that uses the 3d engine. This update to the xvba video package, which is version 0. Xvbabased backend for va api amd fglrx implementation. Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decodeencode video, thus offloading the cpu and saving power there are several ways to achieve this on linux. How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash video. For now va api is available on some intel chips, and on some amd video adapters with help of xvba va driver. The open source 3d mesa driver implements video acceleration that is better and more stable than fglrx one. Install vainfo libvadev, libvaintelvaapi driver intel gpu, xvba va driver ati, vdpau va driver nvidia if vainfo works, then qtav should work with va api. Overview xvbavideo consists in an xvbabased backend for vaapi.
Vaapi is an open source libraryapi which enables hardware accelerated video processing. I compiled my own version from your repo on github which had both va api and xvba, i could experiment with that version in the weekend, and provide the. This enables an application written in va api to run on an ati or nvidia gpu as well as an intel gpu. For now vaapi is available on some intel chips, and on some amd video adapters with help of xvbavadriver. The free and opensource drivers of broadcom crystal. Using openglhq uses 95% cpu and the video is very laggish. Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decodeencode video, thus offloading the cpu and saving power. For now vaapi is available on some intel chips, and on some amd video adapters with help of xvba. Interface frontends are also available for atis xvba and nvidias vdpau. Install fglrx driver and other required utilities with the command below. Im using amd e350 radeon hd 6310 and i want to have a video player which support gpu video acceleration. I installed vdpauinfo libvdpau1 libvdpau va gl1 i read that these need an xvba video back end to be installed. Regardless, its nice to see a direct xvba implementation from one of the most popular linux htpc projects. The open source driver has direct vdpau support, this library is needed for drivers that dont intel and catalyst.
The vaapi video acceleration api enables hardware accelerated video decodeencode at various entrypoints vld, idct, motion compensation etc. On a side note dont ever use vovaapi the mpv docs explicitly say it is awful and only exists for terrible setups and for hwdec wouldnt vdpau be better than vaapi on amd hardware. Fresh player plugin was updated recently with support for hardware accelerated video decoding via vaapi and vdpau, along with video capture support alsa, jack, pulseaudio and other improvements. How to install and configure graphics drivers in linux. Xvba is the xvideo bitstream acceleration api developed by amd for their catalyst linux graphics driver. Install vainfo libvadev, libvaintelvaapidriverintel gpu, xvbavadriverati, vdpauvadrivernvidia if vainfo works, then qtav should work with vaapi. X video bitstream acceleration xvba, designed by amd graphics for its radeon gpu and fusion apu, is an arbitrary extension of the x video extension xv for the x window system on linux operatingsystems. For a concise chart of features supported by the open source radeon drivers. If system is using open source radeon driver, output should look like this. Hardware accelerated decoding wangbinqtav wiki github.
Video acceleration api va api is a royaltyfree api as well as its implementation as free and open source library libva distributed under the mit license the va api is to be implemented by device drivers to offer enduser software, such as vlc media player or gstreamer, access to available video acceleration hardware, such as purevideo through the libvavdpau driver, which implements va. I have compiled vlc from source with vaapi and avcodec enabled. Amd uvd2based xvba finally does something on linux. Xvba does not have processing or displaying capabilities builtin, so at first there will be some back and forth between the video card and memory, hence the probably small speed increase later on, an opengl type will be added to the picture type avidemux will be able to deal with. Install mplayer with vaapi hardware acceleration for.
How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash. Nov 21, 2012 vaapi is an open source libraryapi which enables hardware accelerated video processing. Install mplayer with vaapi hardware acceleration for intel. The advantage of watching video with va is that the video decoding is entirely done by the gpu, leaving the cpu to do other important things. Vdpauvaapi backend hardware accel on intelamd in flash. I use the packages from the howto, but these have no longer. Video acceleration api vaapi is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by intel. That, however, has changed as xbmc has implemented xvba support with the xvbavadriver wrapper having fallen into disrepair. Xvba is the x video bitstream acceleration api developed by amd for their catalyst linux graphics driver. Instructions for that are to install the package xvba video. Just like libgl is a high level api that exposes graphics functions, libva va api is an intel backed standard api that exposes hardware offloading of media processing to the gpu. Using the xvba va driver va api this is confirmed to work for newer radeonhd gpus those with uvd2. How to switch between free and nonfree video drivers.
Using the xvbava driver vaapi this is confirmed to work for newer radeonhd gpus those with uvd2. Il driver mesa per le gpu amd radeon e disponibile a partire da ubuntu. Fresh player plugin gets hardware accelerated video decoding. This card supports so called video acceleration va, which is just a fancy name for the ability to decode certain video files, like h264 encoded mkvfiles. It provides excellent 2d and 3d acceleration and video playback seems to be flawless so far and even desktop effects are way smoother than with the fglrx driver from the 11. Warning fglrx driver has been updated on 20150519, from version. Splitted desktop systems has updated their closed source library that provides an xvba backend to a va api frontend so that those running the ati catalyst linux driver are able to take advantage of the uvd2 video engine on newer radeon hd graphics cards. Thus, the only linux video driver that natively supports va api is intels. In my experience the open source driver does a much better job playing videos and the proprietary ati driver can not even play dvds smoothly.
However, in the year and couple months since the va api to xvba library around, this amd linux video acceleration api hasnt been too favorable. Xvba api allows video programs to offload portions of the. To use the vesa driver, start the livecd like normal, select your language on the first screen. Catalystxvba at least does a better job than the opensource drivers. The free and opensource drivers of broadcom crystal hd. Amd xvba x video bitstream acceleration backend for va api. Fresh player plugin gets hardware accelerated video. Need guide for using xvbavaapi with ati graphic hardware on. Xvideo bitstream acceleration xvba, designed by amd for its ati radeon gpu and fusion apu, is an arbitrary extension of the x video extension xv for the x window system on linux operatingsystems. Xvideo bitstream acceleration xvba, designed by amd graphics for its radeon gpu and fusion apu, is an arbitrary extension of the x video extension xv for the x window system on linux operatingsystems. Ati catalyst video driver fglrx is a proprietary ati catalyst video driver that provides xvba xvideo bitstream acceleration support.
Mplayervaapi performs very well but displaying wrong colors for certain videos as you yan see in the picture below. The amd developers responsible for the fglrx drivers have failed to provide any updates or improvements to the xvba hardware acceleration api which is for example used in the infamous xvba va driver. The video acceleration state on linux gpu drivers phoronix. We suggest you disable hw decoding support and choose multithreaded software decoding in the video acceleration settings. And note, you dont need the library discussed here for that. The amd developers responsible for the fglrx drivers have failed to provide any updates or improvements to the xvba hardware acceleration api which is for example used in the infamous xvbavadriver. Amd xvba xvideo bitstream acceleration backend for va api. Mageia forum view topic solved h264 video acceleration. Debian details of package i965vadrivershaders in sid. Geforce 8 series and newer gpus up until geforce gtx 750 are. Jan 26, 2011 the current version is the ati catalyst 10. They may be a little late with this move, and not everything you could wish is now open source, but its better than nothing. With xvbavideo though, it is just leaving developers to target vaapi for video acceleration, and it reduces amds need to provide any public documentation concerning the xvba interface.