AMD HD Series Graphics Guide: Optimizing Video Playback for MythTV, Mplayer, & Others

[the_king_men]

turkosbon, did you read my last post ? Try to install the xvba driver from the video driver. You have a hd2400 so your card may or may not work (because it is not officially supporter). My hd2600 was not supported but work anyway.

Also, you installed libva (http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/libva/) but did you install xvba-video ? (http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbe...ne/xvba-video/)
libva is a general framework for accelerated video stream. It can use either nvidia system or ati system, but for that you need to install one of these system.
More info about the libva in wikipedia.

[logan_2k6]

Hi,

It seems that compiling mplayer-vaapi with libva >*10 it will give this error.
You can try to change the -vo vaapi with whatever you wish for and it will work but i'm not so sure if it will use the GPU.
Don't know how to fix this one...i'm a noob
mplayer-vaapi compiled with libva *10 works but has some ugly "bug" with colors.


Edit:

Sorry for the above...seems that i am quite a beginner and i've installed the wrong version of xvba. After installing the latest xvba and libva everything works BUT the problem with colors going wrong is still there even with libva sds13.

[jetpeach]

is there a guide like this for lucid lynx? does this guide still apply for lucid or does it need upgrading?

[Fill23]

is there a guide like this for lucid lynx? does this guide still apply for lucid or does it need upgrading?

I'm using Kubuntu Lucid and i just completed this guide to the point of working mplayer-vaapi, didn't try MythTV cause don't using it.

Now i have two questions:
1 - After i builded mplayer i got a folder full of files and no .deb one. How can i install this version of mplayer in the system? I want it because when i'm trying to install smplayer it automaticly tries to install original mplayer, because it thinks there is no mplayer installed in the system.

2 - During playback i sometimes see that overall color balance of a picture changes, like 1 sec it's slightly greenesh next sec it normal and then next second it's slightly bluesh. I know that problem is not the movie file, because on another computer it plays normal, without color changes, and md5 is same.

[N.Simpson]

Thanks for the tutorial. I know have this working on a 785G board (Radeon HD 4200) and can watch tear free video with CPU usage of ~5%.

I think you should change your libva links in the tutorial though as they no longer have the correct library version. The current links are to sds9, I used sds13 to get this working.

Thanks again though, the rest of it worked an absolute treat!

[xzero1]

Simple nautilus script for playing the selected file fullscreen. After installing mplayer....

Place the following script into your nautilus-scripts folder i.e. ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts.

#!/bin/bash
trap 'pkill -ALRM mplayer;exit(1)' INT 

mplayer -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi -fs -ao pulse $1
# modify the mplayer line as you see fit
# note this only plays files compatible with the mplayer options

Make sure to use the .sh suffix on the filename and make it executable. To use: right click selected file in nautilus, select 'scripts' and whatever you named it.

@sports.car.guy
Feel free to add this to your guide as you see fit.
Thanks for the guide.

[n3had]

tm@tm:~/mplayer2/mplayer-vaapi$ ./mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi /home/tm/video2.mp4
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
MPlayer SVN-r31027-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
138 audio & 301 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 /home/tm/video2.mp4.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 0
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 1
VIDEO:  [H264]  1280x720  24bpp  29.960 fps  2014.2 kbps (245.9 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 major_brand: mp42
 minor_version: 0
 compatible_brands: isomavc1mp42
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds6
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VA API accelerated codec.
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 124.5 kbit/8.82% (ratio: 15561->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
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.
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
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=2.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
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=3.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12 
A:   2.5 V:   1.8 A-V:  0.733 ct:  0.059   0/  0 21% 122%  1.8% 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.

No bind found for key 'MOUSE_BTN0'.-MOUSE_BTN0_DBL                         
No bind found for key 'MOUSE_BTN0_DBL'.                         14 0 
A:  59.5 V:  59.5 A-V: -0.002 ct:  0.028   0/  0 33% 29%  0.8% 314 0 

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer
A:  59.5 V:  59.5 A-V: -0.000 ct:  0.028   0/  0 33% 29%  0.8% 314 0 
Exiting... (Quit)
tm@tm:~/mplayer2/mplayer-vaapi$

The video is running fine except the cpu usage is still the same as it is using ffmpeg for decoding h264 video. Any idea where i am going wrong?

Ubuntu 10.04 64bit with ati 10.4 drivers

[boravl]

hello everyone
i have some problems with playing mkv files in patched mplayer-vaapi
when i trying play mkv i see this picture:



content from terminal:

root@ravl-home:~# mplayer-vaapi -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi /mnt/tomas/video/hd/Avatar.mkv
MPlayer SVN-r31027-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
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 /mnt/tomas/video/hd/Avatar.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3), -aid 0, -alang und
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_VOBSUB), -sid 0, -slang ukr
[mkv] Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 1, -slang und
[mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 2, -slang und
[mkv] Track ID 6: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 3, -slang und
[mkv] Track ID 7: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 4, -slang und
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [avc1]  1920x1080  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[vo_vaapi] Using OpenGL rendering
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds6
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VA API accelerated codec.
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 1920x1080 => 1920x1080 H.264 VA API Acceleration 
[vo_vaapi] Using 1:1 VA surface mapping
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
A:  13.1 V:  13.1 A-V:  0.000 ct: -0.000   0/  0 12%  5%  1.3% 10 0 
Exiting... (Quit)

i have not such problem with "avi" and "ts" files and they playing normally

PS: sorry for my bad english

[Tom 6]

Hi

Where can i get the 32bit version of libva?

The links are mostly to direct downloads now but i am sure they were to ftp type sites before which meant i could get the 32 bit versions. Is this guide only for 64bit editions of Ubuntu? I am sure i used it for a 32bit edition fairly recently?

Many regards from
Tom

[Edit] Found my own way by 'hacking' the url. Used right-click to "Copy Link location" and then pasted into a url address bar at the top of the web-browsre and deleted off the 64bit folder & download. This got me to the ftp site where i navigated into
http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbe.../i386/?C=M;O=D