Re: [opensuse-factory] VA-API support in Mesa and chromium video acceleration

I am rather happy as I solved everything I set out to and everyone should be able to use in TW. The recommends on chromium package worked so the relevant packages were automatically installed when I updated to 20160107. Please note that the full ffmpeg package is needed so the VA-API support is only installed and utilized when using chromium-ffmpeg package from Packman. I also patch Mesa to create hardlinks for supported drivers so the environment variable is not needed (this is applied to openSUSE Mesa). - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-December/103585.html My understanding at this point is openSUSE is the only distro with all this setup, much less working without tweaks (like env var). :) I need to reroll the patch as the latest chromium made a view va-api changes that need to be accounted for so it may be temporarily disabled (others can feel free to do so before I get to it). Enjoy, and thanks to those who helped with reviews and tweaks to get into Factory! -- Jimmy On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Jimmy Berry wrote:

Nvidia support can be added by installing libva-vdpau-driver. Perhaps I should add it as a recommends on chromium-ffmpeg as well.

One can also use/force via: LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau

From my reading there seems to be a slight difference in performance between the two, but either work well.

-- Jimmy

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Jimmy Berry wrote:

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SRs for the following were all accepted:

- libva - libva-gl (needs link created) - Mesa-libva

Confirmed patches remove the need to change flags in chromium to utilize the VA-API support.

Confirmed upstream approach for hardlinking driver instances to gallium_drv_video.so in #dri-devel and sent patch and SR. - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-December/103585.html - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/349699

Cleaned up chromium patch and placed behind %bcond. Synced pbms package for testing (issues building on pmbs due pre-existing issue of missing _constraints file, I sent email to packman list). - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/349702

Should probably add a wiki comment/page about using h264ify extension to gain the most from this patch. Not sure if it should/can be enabled in package.

Otherwise, everything should work out of the box for folks using r600 or radeonsi once everything hits tumbleweed.

-- Jimmy

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Jimmy Berry wrote:

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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Sergey Kondakov wrote:

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On 17.12.2015 20:24, Jimmy Berry wrote:

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There had been a prior attempt to enable VA-API support in Mesa (back in Feb 2015), ...

I decided to follow the format of libvdpau-va and libvdpau-va-gl packages. Their source seems to be broken up so it was probably natural to break the package up like that. For libva I split off a linked package called libva-gl.

- libva: builds everything except gl related - libva-gl: builds libva-egl1 and libva-glx1

... For those interested in following along (SR requests pending).

libva - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/349285 - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/349402

libva-gl (new) - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/349403

Mesa - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/349404

I will followup with the chromium SR assuming these make it in.

With luck all this will be accepted/worked out over the next few days.

Enjoy!

-- Jimmy

Great work ! But shouldn't libva-gl package be a branch of libva with shared source and 2 spec-files as it's usually done on OBS ? That way they are easier to maintain and are automatically simultaneously branched into other repoes.

Yes, as I had already commented on the SR it should be a link. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org