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k9dog
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 Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:22 pm Post subject: VA-API, Legacy nvidia and vainfo |
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I seem to have some problems. My "old" laptop is configured as a Gentoo x86 4.9 kernel based system.
The laptop card is a nvidia 7400 Go.
This makes it fall in the catagory where it isn't based on VDPAU and nvenc. I enabled vaapi and it does seem to enhance the system with certain needed stuff like decoders, scaling and 3D support (nouveau is painfully slow in comparison, but makes choosing modes easier. In general nouveau behaves better, but isn't much faster than VESA.
Anyway the problem:
When I run vainfo I get:
| Code: | libva info: VA-API version 1.2.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: User requested driver 'nvidia'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_2
Floating point exception
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nvidia_drv_video.so links to vdpau_drv_video.so and that comes from dependency of nvidia and nouveau pulling it when you merge libva. libva is needed for the functionality mentioned (decoding, 3D and scaling).
If I remove the links avidemux runs. There doesn't seem to be a slowdown.
My question. Is it a bug? Can it be fixed? avidemux fails unless I disable any nvidia support for it.
Further invstigations pointed to avidemux running with -vaapi for avidemux and avidemux-core. I'm glad I chose Gentoo, but this is a bug that comes from vaapi working bad with series before series 8 (but the best we have) and avidemux failing based on floating point error from vainfo. Can I report on Gentoo forum or do I need to go to site for vaapi? |
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mir3x
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Va-api won't work with NVidia.
Your card cannot have any video acceleration.
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k9dog
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It might be limited support, got it running now, but using a previous libva. 1.21. Without it machine isn't accelerated. It might be an exception to the rule, but without vaapi (Tried globally -vaapi) there is no speed. So consider that it does work, but might not support some setups. With vdpau I have only seen bad results.
vainfo returns a floating point error (not isolated to nvidia), this means I need to disable vaapi for avidemux.
If I use -vaapi globally I get software speed. vdpau have no effect on speed, but programs do fail (like vlc). |
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