Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
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

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
Thanks.  That will give me something to look into over the weekend. On 4/5/24 17:34, Ryan Petris wrote: There's likely some setting you have to enable or change to enable hardware acceleration. You'll probably have to poke around or google for that as I'm not that familiar with those settings i

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
There's likely some setting you have to enable or change to enable hardware acceleration. You'll probably have to poke around or google for that as I'm not that familiar with those settings in Handbrake. That said, depending on what you're trying to do, you may just want to use CPU encoding any

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
I don't really have any special need for proprietary drivers. Having come from an nvidia card where their driver worked better than nouveau, I thought that was the best option now.  I've purged the  proprietary stuff.  Thanks for your help. On 4/5/24 15:11, z via PLUG-discuss wrote: Do you tru

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
Thanks Ryan for the advice.  You mentioned the mesa and vdpau drivers for hardware video acceleration.  I'm testing handbrake now by having it transcode the same video (25 minutes) and same settings I mentioned earlier. ( H264 1440x1080 to 640x480).  This time it's also using around 95% of the

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
Yeah, I wouldn't use the proprietary AMD drivers. Jim, undo whatever it is that you did with the amdgpu-pro drivers and install the "xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu" (if you're on debian or a debian based distro, which I assume you are based on the mentioning of a deb package) and restart. That should

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
Right now just for testing, I have Handbrake changing a 1440x1080 25 minute video to 640x480 h264.  Handbrake is encoding at  80fps and using around 96% of the CPU.  The CPU is an Intel i5-3750 at 3,4GHz with 32GB RAM. On 4/5/24 15:11, z via PLUG-discuss wrote: Do you truly need proprietary dri

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
I wanted to take advantage of the hardware acceleration when encoding video.  Would Mesa allow this? On 4/5/24 15:11, z via PLUG-discuss wrote: 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 e

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
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 : > Do you truly need proprietary drivers? That card is one of the best supported > by open source software. So I woul

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
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 hav

Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
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 star

Re: Catch the hand that is spying on me

2024-04-05 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I would never had thought of this type of scam. I hope you find the person or persons. I'm guessing it might be someone close to you. Yikes!! Several months ago there was a post on next door where a man had passed away and someone stole his gun safes. Heinous!! Is this camera ties into a