FS#67219 - [freerdp] Enable VAAPI for AVC decoding

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Jacobo Pantoja (jacobopantoja) - Tuesday, 07 July 2020, 16:49 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Friday, 26 February 2021, 17:14 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
David Runge (dvzrv)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Since 2.0.0-rc2, upstream support for VA-API decoding was enabled via build flag.
In case no hw accellerator is found, it fallbacks to software decoding, so enabling this flag shouldn't have any drawback.

   freerdp_enable_vaapi.diff (0.4 KiB)
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Closed by  David Runge (dvzrv)
Friday, 26 February 2021, 17:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Removed again with freerdp 2:2.3.0-2
Comment by Jacobo Pantoja (jacobopantoja) - Wednesday, 02 September 2020, 19:45 GMT
Is there any reason for not including this build option? I can see that it wasn't included in the latest 2.2.0-1, probably this bug report went unnoticed.

Thanks
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Wednesday, 02 September 2020, 20:26 GMT
@jacobopantoja: Thanks for the bump!

No particular reason but me forgetting about it.

Please check whether this works as expected for you with freerdp 2:2.2.0-2
Comment by Jacobo Pantoja (jacobopantoja) - Thursday, 03 September 2020, 07:17 GMT
@dvzrv: Yes, it works as far as I can tell, I can see the Intel Video decoder working in intel_gpu_top when remoting (at least when remoting videos)

So, we can close it now. Thank you very much
Comment by Christopher Price (pricechrispy) - Thursday, 03 September 2020, 15:52 GMT
Certain hardware drivers limit the maximum resolution for hardware decoding with vaapi (e.g. can't use virtual resolutions larger than a certain amount). See https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/5351)

It seems to be related to hardware or driver limitation.

As this affects my hardware, I had to downgrade to freerdp-2:2.2.0-1.

I believe this will affect others.
Comment by José Luis Salvador Rufo (jlsalvador) - Friday, 26 February 2021, 17:11 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
NVIDIA Proprietary driver doesn't support VA-API through libva-vdpau-driver. freerdp crashes with this option enabled for NVIDIA Proprietary driver. Segment Fault. May until freerdp doesn't supports runtime configuration for LIBVA, it could be a safe bet to disable again this feature. Thoughts?
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Friday, 26 February 2021, 17:12 GMT
As mentioned in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69797 I will remove the feature again, as it is unstable and breaks people's setups.

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