Right now have a couple of fine mplayer ports for our systems, but none of them support the va.library, when that exists on the system.
I would like to ask if there is any plan to update mplayer to support it, and maybe with a fallback to comp_yuv2, or plain comp? I think comp_yuv modes do not work at all on systems with Radeon RX, but comp seems to work, so I would go with this one.
Also, that would be a good opportunity to update it to latest public version. What do you say guys? Should we hope for something like that?
It would be great if we could get va.library support on ffplay, that comes with ffmpeg as well.
On the other hand, there is always the awesome Emotion which support va.library and streaming video from online sources, but it is always good to have alternatives, right?
I know I'm over-ambitious, but I'd love to see the work done on Emotion and on porting the ffmpeg core to Amiga, opened up into a proper multimedia framework API for Amiga. Amiga OS development stopped just before Apple got QuickTime and Windows got DirectShow, and while we got datatypes, and realtime library, mpega and camd, we never got a fully integrated framework for playing containerised source-independent, sink-independent multimedia streams with support for file sources, socket sources, stream sources, in-memory sources, progressive rendering, codec plugins, container format plugins, stream muxing/demuxing, hardware specific accelerated codecs etc etc.
The closest any amigoid platform has to this is the Reggae framework on MorphOS and even that is largely incomplete.
Someone remind me again (since I didn't follow the emotion dev) what I need to get the full power out of emotion/va?
Was it a radeonx card and x5000, or could I be lucky to use it with radeonhd and x1000?
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Replace libva with va.library, I guess its replace some heder files, remove libva from linking, and open va.library, is naive work needed. Assuming thats all thats need to be done, its not too hard.
What can go wrong, well lots of things, most likely thing I’m not thinking about, incompability, between versions, is on top of that list.
Way I don’t work on it, well my HD card is watter cooled, it sucks pooling it out, CFE does support RX card, and need to buy watter cooling block for the RX card, or cut it out of the loop, and I need to buy drivers etc.
But that does not stop anyone else from working on it.
Edited by LiveForIt on 2021/9/16 21:26:47
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yes it be great if everyone was able to use same graphic cards.
I was a bit chocked when Acube acctually tried to update UBOOT, and support HD cards work on Sam440, the Sam440 is prity old now, and its where limited. I guess they did becouse they wonted RX and HD cards to work on Sam460.
Acube alos has a laptop project around cornor, it be great if solved the problem.
Maybe we should have bunty for updated Firmware insted.
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At the moment a hex editor can probably be used to modify RadeonHD to RadeonRX in mplayer to get it working with comp_yuv2. The name is hardcoded (check this post).
Nice tip! I used Zaphod to find and change RadeonHD to RadeonRX in MickJT's mplayer version. When I tested a sample AVI file with the RadeonHD version, CPU usage was ~15%, with the RadeonRX version it was ~8%. So something changed! :)
I then tested with Emotion 1.9 and the CPU use was in line with the RX hacked Mplayer.
New question, is this "hack" possible with ffplay?
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New question, is this "hack" possible with ffplay?
No, the check tells Mplayer you have supported graphic card, and now it can use bitmaps with yuv422 format. (without it has to convert to ARGB bitmap.)
FFMPEG does not display the graphic so nothing you can't get any improvments.
Mplayer does not do hardware decoding, no VA.library when Mplayer was compiled.
If get same result in Emotion it most be becouse its not using VA.library or it the video file is so tiny that most cpu time is not spent on decoding. I will suggest you making sure you have the latest version of Emotion, and lastest drivers installed. can all RX cards support VA.library?
MPlayer is configured with lowest decoding settings, and lot time was spent on trying to find the fastest version of FFMPEG, as thats what it uses. (it might have help)
The MickJT version was compiled with different compiler I belive.
Edited by LiveForIt on 2021/9/20 20:07:28
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