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Antkibo

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Registered: 2019-10-10

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] vainfo doesn't show Encoders nor Driver

Hi, sirs. I have some problems checking if my hardware acceleration is set up correctly. Currently, vainfo outputs

[elrond@Rivendell ~]$ vainfo
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.5 (libva 2.5.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 19.2.3 for AMD SUMO (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.3.5-arch1-1-ARCH, LLVM 9.0.0)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc

Quite different from wiki's output. I can't find anything related on web. Somebody has a clue? Thanks.

Last edited by Antkibo (2019-11-24 22:26:55)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,406

Re: [SOLVED] vainfo doesn't show Encoders nor Driver

The Arch package defines LIBVA_MESSAGING_LEVEL=1 in /etc/libva.conf if you remove that and or increase the level you will see more of the  not quite relevant info output.

If you aren't shown any encoders then that means you don't support any encoders, from what I know this is quite well known and a limitation of mesa/radeon/amdgpu and has not ever been implemented to date.

Checked again and it seems to have been implemented for newer chips, however both the radeon feature page and the wiki agree that this was never implemented for this particular graphics chip.

Last edited by V1del (2019-11-12 09:03:56)