Bug 63090

Summary:	mesa 9.2git: qvdpautest fails to work with UVD but also fails with shader decoding
Product:	Mesa	Reporter:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Component:	Drivers/Gallium/r600	Assignee:	Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	git
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2013-04-03 22:04:28 UTC

Tried to test vdpau using
https://github.com/robertmassaioli/qvdpautest

but it failed with:
qvdpautest 0.5.2
AMD E-350 Processor
Unknown GPU

VDPAU API version : 1
VDPAU implementation : G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0

FATAL: get_bits failed : No backend implementation could be loaded.!!

and very bad framerate (MPEG DECODING (1920x1080): 53 frames/s)

"No backend implementation could be loaded" happened with shaders decoding and also with UVD decoding (while mplayer -vo vdpau worked fine on both cases)

"No backend implementation could be loaded" is mesa VDP_STATUS_NO_IMPLEMENTATION



Test environment:
- kernel from drm-fixes + radeon UVD patches (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-April/036766.html + http://paste.debian.net/247063/)

- mesa 9.2 from master as of 302df7cc85b0e2ce47c40048f30bd116b0d692fc + patches http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mesa3d.devel/55622 and http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-April/037089.html

- E350 AMD APU with [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] GPU

- vdpauinfo with shaders: http://pastebin.com/UV2CAX9F
- vdpauinfo with UVD working: http://pastebin.com/FjpLyMqr

Comment 1 ryszardzonk 2013-04-09 13:29:25 UTC

I have same platform as Arkadiusz [E-350] and I can confirm his results of 53 frames/s. 

software used:
Kernel 3.9-rc6 + drm uvd patches
libdrm Git 08.04.2013
xorg-server 1.13.3
Mesa Git 08.04.2013 + uvd patch

On the other hand mplayer -vo vdpau was not enough to get smooth playback of H264 content. I had to specify "mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau" with perfect results. Using standard combination of "mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau" on the H264 content made mplayer use ffmpeg12vdpau which resulted in jerky playback. 
Using XBMC from FernetMenta tree https://github.com/FernetMenta/xbmc which has number of vdpau playback fixes resulted in jerky playback for high bitrate content at 1920@1080.

As of VC1 content any player I used created either dark screen with green artifacts at playback

Please let me know if You need any logs (dmesg/Xorg/lspci) or configs (kernel/Xorg) or any other for that matter

Comment 2 Christian König 2013-04-09 13:46:39 UTC

That's a bug in qvdpautest. It tries to get the surface data in YUYV format, which is simply not supported by the hardware.

We could implement a software fallback, but mesuring that would be pretty much nonsense.

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