Easily enable Radeon open-source driver uvd vdpau support

A major change brought about by Kernel 3.10 in video is to allow the open-source Radeon driver to use UVD for HD hardware decoding.

To implement Radeon UVD hardware decoding, the following requirements must be met:

• Kernel 3.10 +
• Libdrm 2.4.45 +
• Mesa 9.2 Git + and -- enable-vdpau
• Video players that support VDPAU: mplayer, XBMC, and VLC 2.1.X

 

The following uses Fedora 19 as an example to describe how to enable it. It is very simple:

pkcon install mesa-vdpau-drivers vdpauinfo

Then runvdpauinfoView running results, such as on a A10-5800K:

display: :0   screen: 0API version: 1Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0Video surface:name   width height types-------------------------------------------420    16384 16384  NV12 422    16384 16384  NV12 444    16384 16384  NV12 Decoder capabilities:name               level macbs width height-------------------------------------------MPEG1                16  9216  2048  1152MPEG2_SIMPLE         16  9216  2048  1152MPEG2_MAIN           16  9216  2048  1152H264_BASELINE        16  9216  2048  1152H264_MAIN            16  9216  2048  1152H264_HIGH            16  9216  2048  1152VC1_SIMPLE           16  9216  2048  1152VC1_MAIN             16  9216  2048  1152VC1_ADVANCED         16  9216  2048  1152MPEG4_PART2_SP       16  9216  2048  1152MPEG4_PART2_ASP      16  9216  2048  1152Output surface:name              width height nat types----------------------------------------------------B8G8R8A8         16384 16384    y  NV12 R8G8B8A8         16384 16384    y  NV12 R10G10B10A2      16384 16384    y  NV12 B10G10R10A2      16384 16384    y  NV12 Bitmap surface:name              width height------------------------------B8G8R8A8         16384 16384R8G8B8A8         16384 16384R10G10B10A2      16384 16384B10G10R10A2      16384 16384A8               16384 16384Video mixer:feature name                    sup------------------------------------DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL             -DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL     -INVERSE_TELECINE                 -NOISE_REDUCTION                  ySHARPNESS                        yLUMA_KEY                         -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L1        -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L2        -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L3        -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L4        -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L5        -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L6        -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L7        -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L8        -HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L9        -parameter name                  sup      min      max-----------------------------------------------------VIDEO_SURFACE_WIDTH              y        48     2048VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT             y        48     1152CHROMA_TYPE                      y  LAYERS                           y         0        4attribute name                  sup      min      max-----------------------------------------------------BACKGROUND_COLOR                 y  CSC_MATRIX                       y  NOISE_REDUCTION_LEVEL            y      0.00     1.00SHARPNESS_LEVEL                  y     -1.00     1.00LUMA_KEY_MIN_LUMA                y  LUMA_KEY_MAX_LUMA                y  

Due to restrictions, we hope that other releases of shoes can share in the comments that use the release version to enable Radeon uvd vdpau. I will summarize this article for future reference.

Related reading:

AMD releases open-source UVD support

How to enable UVD hardware Decoding with Radeon open-source driver in Ubuntu

AMD open-source Radeon driver Dynamic Power Management

NVIDIA graphics Linux driver official version 180.29 released