Thanks.  I've read that tonight.  Earlier just for the fun of it I installed the Radeon drivers on winsows10.  I installed handbrake and had it transcode the same video I experimented with earlier.  When I chose the codec,  I found H.264 (AMD_VCE).  There was also an H.265 AMD_VCE option but I didn't try it.  Handbrake in Windows was transcoding the video at around 100 to 110 fps and only using 1% of the CPU.  I may not use hardware acceleration for encoding often, but I'd like to have it available.  It doesn't matter to me if I use the open source drivers or the proprietary ones.  I can't help but wonder why it won't work in Linux.

On 4/5/24 15:29, z via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I also don't think I made it clear that mesa is probably better than the proprietary AMD drivers on linux. The same is untrue on NVIDIA.

Apr 5, 2024 15:11:16 z via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:

    Do you truly need proprietary drivers? That card is one of the
    best supported by open source software. So I would just install
    mesa, which should be easily installed from your distro's package
    manager, if it's not installed already.

    Assuming you do need proprietary, maybe try a reboot if you
    haven't already? It's giving a missing binary error and sometimes
    I get those after a kernel update and not rebooting.



    Zack

    Apr 5, 2024 14:43:44 Jim via PLUG-discuss
    <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:

        Today the Radeon RX580 graphics card I bought arrived. To get
        the drivers for the card, I went here

        https://www.amd.com/en/support  where I downloaded
        amdgpu-install_6.0.60002-1_all.deb

        Next I started following the instructions at
        https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ then I
        started running into problems.

        amdgpu-install --vulkan=amdvlk,pro gave me 2 errors:

        E: Unable to locate package vulkan-amdgpu-pro and the same for
        vulkan-amdgpu-pro:i386

        I kept going and entered amdgpu-install -y --usecase=workstation

        That returned the errors Unable to locate package amdgpu-pro
        and amdgpu-pro-lib32

        With the error messages I figured I'd have problems, but I
        tried to find out if I could use the hardware acceleration so
        I entered|:|

        |ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v h264_amf -c:a copy output.mp4

        That gave me several errors.  The first one was [h264_amf @
        0x562e1f855380] DLL libamfrt64.so.1 failed to open|

        |So I tried sudo updatedb and locate libamfrt64.so.1 which
        returned nothing.  That told me the file wasn't there.|

        |I tried to transcode a file with Handbrake but it didn't show
        h264_amf among the available codec options.|

        |I tried searching for how to install libamfrt64.so.1 but all
        I got was references to steps I already tried.
        |

        |Did I make a mistake somwhere or does AMD need to fix something?|

        |Thank for your help.|

        |Jim
        |


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