The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Vi0L0 · 2015-01-11 20:01:39

Feel free.
BTW 4K playback on my 1440p monitor is dropping frames on vaapi - I dunno if it's because of the underscalling. xv works perfectly fluid, i didn't check xbmc - maybe it's worth a shot using new fglrx vaapi acceleration (mentioned here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1483404 just note problems with subtitles), hell - even with xvba wrapper its worth a shot.

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2015-01-11 20:03:44)

Thralas · 2015-01-11 20:09:08

MSC wrote:

I've been using the catalyst-stable repository and updated to 14.12 yesterday. Unfortunately it has a major bug: it causes X to leak memory at nearly 1 MB per second. Needless to say this would render my system unusable within a few hours. Downgrading back to 14.9 solved the problem. All other packages are up-to-date. Anyone else experiencing this? I have dual Radeon HD 7870s if that makes any difference.

I'm seeing similar issues, Xorg has 2541M RSS after ~10h of uptime. I don't know what's causing the allocs, it doesn't seem to grow continually, but rather in steps.

Using dual head output on a 5850, catalyst 14.12, xorg 1.16, Xfce desktop. Haven't really run anything besides Exaile, some terminals and Chrome.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to debug this? I might try linking Xorg to dmalloc and check whether that's of any use.

clfarron4 · 2015-01-11 20:15:58

Thralas wrote:

MSC wrote:
I've been using the catalyst-stable repository and updated to 14.12 yesterday. Unfortunately it has a major bug: it causes X to leak memory at nearly 1 MB per second. Needless to say this would render my system unusable within a few hours. Downgrading back to 14.9 solved the problem. All other packages are up-to-date. Anyone else experiencing this? I have dual Radeon HD 7870s if that makes any difference.
I'm seeing similar issues, Xorg has 2541M RSS after ~10h of uptime. I don't know what's causing the allocs, it doesn't seem to grow continually, but rather in steps.
Using dual head output on a 5850, catalyst 14.12, xorg 1.16, Xfce desktop. Haven't really run anything besides Exaile, some terminals and Chrome.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to debug this? I might try linking Xorg to dmalloc and check whether that's of any use.

On my AMD Radeon 6480G (mobile APU) with Catalyst 14.12, I once had a memory leak from X.org of nearly 2GB RAM after about 8 hours of uptime, but I've not been able to replicate it since. Web browsing, study, a little bit of anime and CS:GO was what I did, but I've done that everyday since getting back to university and I only had the RAM leak once...

diesel1 · 2015-01-11 20:50:42

Vi0L0 wrote:

Feel free.
BTW 4K playback on my 1440p monitor is dropping frames on vaapi - I dunno if it's because of the underscalling. xv works perfectly fluid, i didn't check xbmc - maybe it's worth a shot using new fglrx vaapi acceleration (mentioned here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1483404 just note problems with subtitles), hell - even with xvba wrapper its worth a shot.

Ok then here goes!

I am running a 27" Dell P2715Q 4K Ultra HD monitor through a Radeon R9 290 over DisplayPort. I also output to a Sony 40" tv via DVI to HDMI at 1080p. My cpu is an Athlon II X4 630 with 8Gb 1600 DDR3.

I was expecting the R9 290 to easily give me 4K video playback but when playing Big Buck Bunny (bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4) using mplayer (mplayer -vo vaapi:gl bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4) the playback is stuttering and far from smooth. I thought the R9 would need to turn on the power and so expected the fan to speed up but nothing happened.

Here is the mplayer output.....

diesel1% mplayer -vo vaapi:gl bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4
MPlayer SVN-r36265-4.9.2 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
203 audio & 423 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4.
libavformat version 55.12.102 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (mp3), -aid 0, -alang und
[lavf] stream 2: audio (ac3), -aid 1, -alang und
VIDEO: [H264] 3840x2160 24bpp 30.000 fps 7498.2 kbps (915.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
major_brand: isom
minor_version: 1
compatible_brands: isomavc1
creation_time: 2013-12-18 14:43:04
title: Big Buck Bunny, Sunflower version
artist: Blender Foundation 2008, Janus Bager Kristensen 2013
comment: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 - http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net
genre: Animation
composer: Sacha Goedegebure
Load subtitles in ./
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering
Could not find a UTF-8 locale, some keys will not be handled.
libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: User requested driver 'xvba'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri//xvba_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_32
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 55.18.102 (internal)
Cannot find codec 'h264_vdpau' in libavcodec...
VDecoder init failed
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
Forced video codec: ffwmv3vdpau
Forced video codec: ffvc1vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 160.0 kbit/10.42% (ratio: 20000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 H.264 VA-API Acceleration
[vo_vaapi] Using 1:1 VA surface mapping
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2
[vo_vaapi] vaCreateContext(): unknown libva error
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 H.264 VA-API Acceleration
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2
[vo_vaapi] vaCreateContext(): unknown libva error
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.
A: 4.2 V: 1.7 A-V: 2.546 ct: 0.031 0/ 0 192% 68% 2.0% 50 0

************************************************
**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
- Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
- Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
- Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
- Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
- Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
- Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

A: 5.6 V: 2.4 A-V: 3.263 ct: 0.030 0/ 0 174% 67% 2.1% 71 0

Exiting... (Quit)

When I played a 1080p video with the same settings the R9 did respond by speeding up the fan and making some noise. Why doesn't the R9 adapt its processing power to meet my 4K needs?

Having played the video using the command 'mplayer bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4' it seems to be just the same so I must be missing some gfx acceleration somewhere.

I thought my CPU should be able to cope with playing a video.

Please go easy with me... this is my first experience of Radeon and 4K!

Simon.

Last edited by diesel1 (2015-01-12 16:22:50)

machinegod420 · 2015-01-12 05:14:25

Hey,

How can I tell if the catalsyt drivers are using the right graphics card for my computer? Whenever I run fgl_glxgears, I usually get 60fps, but if I change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, it seems use the discrete card since my fps balloons. This is kinda confirmed since this only happens when I have aticonfig to uuse the discrete card it has a substantially higher fps. If I use the aticonfig to use the intel card its the samefps as usually. I'd like to set this up right so that my 3d applications actually use the ATI card and not the integrated card.

Thralas · 2015-01-14 14:07:10

I've run Xorg with heaptrack attached in an attempt to debug my memory leak issues.

718.03MB leaked over 1851097 calls from
0x7f09be3d35c3
  in /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so

Unsurprisingly, it's due to Catalyst. I don't know why that particular call doesn't have a backtrace though.

costil · 2015-01-15 19:33:14

Catalyst-fix-gdm works fine with catalyst-hook 14.12-1 on HD7770. I have GDM working again. Thank you Vi0l0 and Oliver Chang!!

Kuci · 2015-01-15 19:50:09

GDM still does not work for me and the whole GNOME does not as well. I have decided not to investigate it anymore. Yes, GNOME is cool, nice and full of awesome features, but it works terrible. Terrible backward compatibility and it is basically a clusterfuck of bugs. I am not even able to make it work on several other machines, no matter which driver or brand of GPU they run. I really enjoyed using it, but it is getting worse and worse from update to update.

Sarge · 2015-01-18 02:37:24

Hi, guys.
I'm not shure that my trouble is with catalist driver, but may be you can help me with that.
I use catalist-pxp driver on my laptop.
After last -Syu cursor is disappear (i can use it but can't see) when I use amd graphics (ok on intel)
Also when I connect to TV via HDMI and just clone screen with xrandr, I see cursor on TV, but not in laptop display.
What is wrong?

Elemento Cero · 2015-01-20 21:36:06

I also have a problem with a dual-screen setup, under KDE (main monitor via DVI-HDMI, the other via HDMI-HDMI -for playing movies with Kodi mostly-). When upgrading to Catalyst 14.12, I cannot use both monitors at the same time; they remain in an "out of signal" state. If I unplug the HDMI-HDMI one, then the main monitor recovers the signal and I can work with it normally, but it is far from ideal. This problem can be reverted with the Catalyst 14.9 version, but I upgraded the linux kernel to 3.18 so I'm stuck (I don't have the previous version in the cache). Do you know a workaround to this inconvenience?

Last edited by Elemento Cero (2015-01-20 22:01:15)

Vi0L0 · 2015-01-20 22:30:25

sorry, have been pretty busy latelly, will look at earlier posts later, but anyway i've preapred 14.9 with initial 3.19 support (i used kolasa's patch), you can find it here: http://catalyst.wirephire.com/tarball/c … src.tar.gz
i've finally uploaded amdtfset (Small command-line utility to set and query the tear free desktop option present in the AMD Catalyst) package that can be usefull: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/amdtfset-git/
(edit this pkg is also available @ [catalyst] repo atm)

as for the vaapi: what if you will run mplayer with additional -va vaapi option?

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2015-01-20 22:45:05)

diesel1 · 2015-01-20 23:28:10

Hi Vi0L0,

Thanks for asking about the -va vaapi option. I tried this.....

mplayer -va vaapi bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4
MPlayer SVN-r36265-4.9.2 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
203 audio & 423 video codecs
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4.
libavformat version 55.12.102 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (mp3), -aid 0, -alang und
[lavf] stream 2: audio (ac3), -aid 1, -alang und
VIDEO: [H264] 3840x2160 24bpp 30.000 fps 7498.2 kbps (915.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
major_brand: isom
minor_version: 1
compatible_brands: isomavc1
creation_time: 2013-12-18 14:43:04
title: Big Buck Bunny, Sunflower version
artist: Blender Foundation 2008, Janus Bager Kristensen 2013
comment: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 - http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net
genre: Animation
composer: Sacha Goedegebure
Load subtitles in ./
Could not find a UTF-8 locale, some keys will not be handled.
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 55.18.102 (internal)
Cannot find codec 'h264_vdpau' in libavcodec...
VDecoder init failed
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
Forced video codec: ffwmv3vdpau
Forced video codec: ffvc1vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 160.0 kbit/10.42% (ratio: 20000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.
A: 0.4 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.322 ct: 0.000 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
A: 0.7 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.630 ct: 0.001 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 3 0
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
A: 1.0 V: 0.1 A-V: 0.872 ct: 0.003 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 4 0
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
A: 1.1 V: 0.2 A-V: 0.896 ct: 0.004 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 5 0
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
A: 1.1 V: 0.2 A-V: 0.893 ct: 0.005 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 6 0
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
A: 1.5 V: 0.5 A-V: 0.969 ct: 0.010 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 15 0
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
A: 1.5 V: 0.5 A-V: 0.980 ct: 0.011 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 16 0
X11 error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)

Exiting... (Quit)

The first time I ran this command I got FHD (1/4 screen windowed output) but still staggering/stuttering. When repeating the command an FHD window appears with solid black output and the errors as in the code above.

I have had lots of window errors (flickering or showing solid blue/black etc) when using chrome browser since switching to Radeon/4k.

I do hope I have not wasted the best part of £240 by switching to AMD/ATI/Radeon to power my 4k monitor. At the moment I am very concerned that I have make a big mistake.

Thanks again for the help,

*******EDIT********

I have updated to 14.12 and rebooted. This is now the output from mplayer....

mplayer -va vaapi bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4
MPlayer SVN-r36265-4.9.2 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
203 audio & 423 video codecs
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4.
libavformat version 55.12.102 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (mp3), -aid 0, -alang und
[lavf] stream 2: audio (ac3), -aid 1, -alang und
VIDEO: [H264] 3840x2160 24bpp 30.000 fps 7498.2 kbps (915.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
major_brand: isom
minor_version: 1
compatible_brands: isomavc1
creation_time: 2013-12-18 14:43:04
title: Big Buck Bunny, Sunflower version
artist: Blender Foundation 2008, Janus Bager Kristensen 2013
comment: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 - http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net
genre: Animation
composer: Sacha Goedegebure
Load subtitles in ./
Could not find a UTF-8 locale, some keys will not be handled.
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 55.18.102 (internal)
Cannot find codec 'h264_vdpau' in libavcodec...
VDecoder init failed
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
Forced video codec: ffwmv3vdpau
Forced video codec: ffvc1vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 160.0 kbit/10.42% (ratio: 20000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.
A: 2.5 V: 1.7 A-V: 0.769 ct: 0.014 0/ 0 139% 2% 0.6% 50 0

************************************************
**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
- Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
- Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
- Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
- Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
- Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
- Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

A: 11.6 V: 8.0 A-V: 3.633 ct: 0.014 0/ 0 142% 0% 1.1% 233 0

Exiting... (Quit)

The output appeared 4K but windowed. I made it fullscreen but the playback was still stalling and very slow/jerky.

I have noticed that the first second seems full speed (the butterflies wings seem to flap fast and then slow down) but the rest is slow.

Do you think my my cpu should be able to deliver the video to the graphics card quickly enough? By the way I am now running 16GB 1600Mhz CAS9 memory (2x8GB).

I am guessing this have more to do with the 4K resolution than my cpu/gpu as no errors are shown when running 1920x1080p with the same mplayer command and options.

After trying several attempts at playing this again with mplayer -va vaapi:gl -ni bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4

I got this...
A: 324.4 V: 296.7 A-V: 27.619 ct: -0.022 0/ 0 283% 0% 6.5% 433 0 1.95x

Too many video packets in the buffer: (859 in 33638408 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
A: 366.6 V: 346.8 A-V: 19.771 ct: -0.026 0/ 0 281% 0% 7.5% 312 0 1.95x

Too many video packets in the buffer: (624 in 33586072 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
A: 467.9 V: 438.9 A-V: 29.006 ct: -0.034 0/ 0 445% 0% 11.0% 244 0 1.95x

Too many video packets in the buffer: (894 in 33767983 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
A: 589.9 V: 587.3 A-V: 2.644 ct: -0.005 0/ 0 484% 1% 13.6% 21 0 1.95x

Also the gpu fan is now responding to the call for gpu processing and is increasing in speed when the video is trying to play.

Simon.

Last edited by diesel1 (2015-01-21 00:53:06)

Elemento Cero · 2015-01-21 00:56:10

Vi0L0 wrote:

sorry, have been pretty busy latelly, will look at earlier posts later, but anyway i've preapred 14.9 with initial 3.19 support (i used kolasa's patch), you can find it here: http://catalyst.wirephire.com/tarball/c … src.tar.gz
i've finally uploaded amdtfset (Small command-line utility to set and query the tear free desktop option present in the AMD Catalyst) package that can be usefull: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/amdtfset-git/
(edit this pkg is also available @ [catalyst] repo atm)

as for the vaapi: what if you will run mplayer with additional -va vaapi option?

Thank you very much! After installing catalyst-test-14.9-12 my dual-screen setup works as expected again. I guess I have to remain in 14.9 for the time being and hold back the urge to upgrade ., Keep up the good work.

Last edited by Elemento Cero (2015-01-21 00:58:27)

clfarron4 · 2015-01-21 07:50:28

Vi0L0 wrote:

I've prepared 14.9 with initial 3.19 support (I used kolasa's patch), you can find it here: http://catalyst.wirephire.com/tarball/c … src.tar.gz

It's working with 3.19-rc5 here

Vi0L0 · 2015-01-21 18:04:00

@diesel1:
I meant `mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi` or `mplayer -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi`. What about those?
Also the fact that you are somehow forcing vdpau codecs is kinda exotic to me, could you turn it off?

clfarron4 wrote:

Vi0L0 wrote:
I've prepared 14.9 with initial 3.19 support (I used kolasa's patch), you can find it here: http://catalyst.wirephire.com/tarball/c … src.tar.gz
It's working with 3.19-rc5 here

yep :-) if you are interested in rc kernels I could try to update pkgs earlier with initial support. Right now also catalyst-hook 14.12-2 @ [catalyst] has 3.19 support.

clfarron4 · 2015-01-21 18:45:01

Vi0L0 wrote:

clfarron4 wrote:
Vi0L0 wrote:
I've prepared 14.9 with initial 3.19 support (I used kolasa's patch), you can find it here: http://catalyst.wirephire.com/tarball/c … src.tar.gz
It's working with 3.19-rc5 here
yep :-) if you are interested in rc kernels I could try to update pkgs earlier with initial support. Right now also catalyst-hook 14.12-2 @ [catalyst] has 3.19 support.

You don't have to rush rc kernel support in as soon as you can, as I have my hands pretty full with the kernels I maintain in the AUR and I rarely get a chance to play with rc kernels. Things are a little quieter at the moment for me because my buddy for testing my AUR packages is currently making some amends to the lts kernels.

diesel1 · 2015-01-21 19:39:55

Hi ViOLO,

I have tried both variants and the -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi seems (is there a definitive way to tell?) to be faster. I have included the output from the vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi command.......

mplayer -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4
MPlayer SVN-r36265-4.9.2 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
203 audio & 423 video codecs
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing bbb_sunflower_2160p_30fps_normal.mp4.
libavformat version 55.12.102 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (mp3), -aid 0, -alang und
[lavf] stream 2: audio (ac3), -aid 1, -alang und
VIDEO:  [H264]  3840x2160  24bpp  30.000 fps  7498.2 kbps (915.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 major_brand: isom
 minor_version: 1
 compatible_brands: isomavc1
 creation_time: 2013-12-18 14:43:04
 title: Big Buck Bunny, Sunflower version
 artist: Blender Foundation 2008, Janus Bager Kristensen 2013
 comment: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 - http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net
 genre: Animation
 composer: Sacha Goedegebure
Load subtitles in ./
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering
Could not find a UTF-8 locale, some keys will not be handled.
libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: User requested driver 'xvba'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri//xvba_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_32
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 55.18.102 (internal)
Cannot find codec 'h264_vdpau' in libavcodec...
VDecoder init failed :(
Forced video codec: ffmpeg12vdpau
Forced video codec: ffwmv3vdpau
Forced video codec: ffvc1vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 160.0 kbit/10.42% (ratio: 20000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 H.264 VA-API Acceleration 
[vo_vaapi] Using 1:1 VA surface mapping
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2
[vo_vaapi] vaCreateContext(): unknown libva error
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12 
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 H.264 VA-API Acceleration 
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateDecode(): status 2
[vo_vaapi] vaCreateContext(): unknown libva error
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12 
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 3840x2160 => 3840x2160 Planar YV12 
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.
A:   3.1 V:   1.7 A-V:  1.401 ct:  0.019   0/  0 156% 35%  0.8% 50 0 


           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

A:  94.3 V:  44.9 A-V: 49.357 ct:  0.019   0/  0 176% 31%  1.1% 1345 0 

Too many video packets in the buffer: (1505 in 33598561 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
A: 171.1 V: 138.8 A-V: 32.374 ct:  0.550   0/  0 160% 31%  0.7% 2652 0 

Exiting... (Quit)

I have also noticed the audio is a long way out of sync after just 10 seconds.

Thanks again,

Simon.

Last edited by diesel1 (2015-01-21 19:50:45)

Vi0L0 · 2015-01-21 22:13:07

I also have problems when playing this file (more preciselly i picked up 60fps version) on mplayer, no matter what va or vo i picked up its always dropping some frames. Same on vlc.
But it does play well on chromium and kodi (with vaapi acceleration enabled). Did you check kodi (xbmc in old days)?

LucetLux · 2015-01-23 21:33:14

Is it normal for KF5 compositing to run like absolute crap with catalyst ?

diesel1 · 2015-01-24 14:29:10

Vi0L0 wrote:

I also have problems when playing this file (more preciselly i picked up 60fps version) on mplayer, no matter what va or vo i picked up its always dropping some frames. Same on vlc.
But it does play well on chromium and kodi (with vaapi acceleration enabled). Did you check kodi (xbmc in old days)?

Thanks for the info Vi0L0. I did try both videos in kodi but the results were very similar to mplayer except in kodi the sound stopped and started as the video played (smoothly but in slow motion).

Having looked at the output from mplayer and comparing to playing the BBB 1080p version I am wondering if the problem is something to do with the 4k resolution or scaling.

I have turned on hardware scaling in amdcccle but that doesn't change anything.

*EDIT*
I downloaded several 4K clips from here http://box.houkouonchi.jp/4k/, in several different formats. Initially I thought these were playing fine in google-chrome but the sound began to stutter and I noticed slight stalling in the video too. different formats seem to break after different periods of time. I also tried these in kodi with similar results. Mplayer still shows the same issues.

I tried the file ses.astra.ultrahd.demo.2160p.uhdtv.internal-ifh, from the link above, in vlc and it worked perfectly. No stuttering or sound issues. Hooray! something works! Now to solve the other issues.

Simon.

Last edited by diesel1 (2015-01-24 20:56:40)

Vi0L0 · 2015-01-27 21:57:39

LucetLux wrote:

Is it normal for KF5 compositing to run like absolute crap with catalyst ?

You mean plasma-workspace 5.2? It works pretty well here on opengl 3.1 _after_ relogin.
Thought this whole environement is very unstable, almost like kde 4.0... too bad i kinda like how does breeze look.

diesel1 · 2015-01-28 20:31:36

Well since updating yesterday (2015-01-27) and now using LXDM and Cinnamon desktop (I was using KDM and KDE 4) all but one of the videos play using VLC. When playing in Mplayer or Kodi I am still getting slow, juddering playback.

Simon.

clfarron4 · 2015-01-30 11:52:59

Anyone have experience with Dual AMD cards? I'm linking this thread because the OP there has dual AMD cards in a laptop and I want to say PowerXpress.

moosethemucha · 2015-01-31 06:56:13

clfarron4 wrote:

Anyone have experience with Dual AMD cards? I'm linking this thread because the OP there has dual AMD cards in a laptop and I want to say PowerXpress.

Hi there I am the original poster that clfarron4 mentioned. I'm not really sure what setup or packages I should install. I tried the powerexpress method suggested on the wiki page, but it is more tailored to intel/amd (hybrid) configurations. I am now running a new install with the open source drivers and would like to know in which direction i should go in.

I don't particularly want to start something that will end up with me having to re-install arch(I know i could have probably fixed the original issue but ended up getting frustrated and thought that starting again would be best.)

Also I found this thread which is related and asked the OP some questions. [link]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1498257[/link]

Thank you in advance.

Last edited by moosethemucha (2015-01-31 07:03:21)

smlb · 2015-02-02 10:08:19

I'm stuck at this:

 cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/1/radeon_pm_info                                                                                                                                                            [0]
PX asic powered off

lspci -k | grep -A2 VGA                                                                                                                                                                                        [1]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 057f
	Kernel driver in use: i915
--
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M] (rev ff)
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
	Kernel modules: radeon

And this is dmesg

smlb@echoes ~ % dmesg | grep radeon                                                                                                                                                                                            [0]
[  +0.004033] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[  +0.000051] radeon 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[  +0.000146] radeon 0000:02:00.0: VRAM: 1024M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000003FFFFFFF (1024M used)
[  +0.000006] radeon 0000:02:00.0: GTT: 1024M 0x0000000040000000 - 0x000000007FFFFFFF
[  +0.000056] [drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready
[  +0.000004] [drm] radeon: 1024M of GTT memory ready.
[  +0.005932] [drm] radeon: dpm initialized
[  +0.000149] radeon 0000:02:00.0: WB enabled
[  +0.000008] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000040000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff88021df36c00
[  +0.000004] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 3 use gpu addr 0x0000000040000c0c and cpu addr 0xffff88021df36c0c
[  +0.000781] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 5 use gpu addr 0x0000000000072118 and cpu addr 0xffffc90016ab2118
[  +0.000004] radeon 0000:02:00.0: radeon: MSI limited to 32-bit
[  +0.000043] radeon 0000:02:00.0: irq 33 for MSI/MSI-X
[  +0.000023] radeon 0000:02:00.0: radeon: using MSI.
[  +0.000064] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[  +0.007865] radeon 0000:02:00.0: No connectors reported connected with modes
[  +0.000183] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fb1: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[  +0.000114] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.40.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 1
[  +0.000116] radeon 0000:02:00.0: WB enabled
[  +0.000007] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000040000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff88021df36c00
[  +0.000005] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 3 use gpu addr 0x0000000040000c0c and cpu addr 0xffff88021df36c0c
[  +0.000776] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 5 use gpu addr 0x0000000000072118 and cpu addr 0xffffc90016ab2118
[  +0.000116] radeon 0000:02:00.0: WB enabled
[  +0.000007] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000040000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff88021df36c00
[  +0.000005] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 3 use gpu addr 0x0000000040000c0c and cpu addr 0xffff88021df36c0c
[  +0.000804] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 5 use gpu addr 0x0000000000072118 and cpu addr 0xffffc90016ab2118

I don't understand why seems to be powered off, can't let graphic card works neither with open driver neither with proprietary. Anyone got same problem?

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