[packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

[Masaru Nomiya]

Hello,

In the Message; 

  Subject    : Fwd: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player
  Message-ID : <CALtYYoxDg7L=09JiunqvFeE4jp_LiqT5kE7tNUm0dVWOdZ-bCg at mail.gmail.com>
  Date & Time: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 15:32:29 +0200

[SS] == Steven Swart <steven.swart at gmail.com> has written:

[...]
SS>  I still think it's worth writing a HOWTO and posting it on the OpenSUSE
SS>  hardware forums, it may save others from wasting a lot of their time. I
SS>  will try to do that at some stage.

I think it's a good idea.

It would be more optimal if you could include the vdpauinfo results.

If video codecs are enabled, then.

Decoder capabilities:

name                        level macbs width height
----------------------------------------------------
MPEG1                           0 65536  4096  4096
MPEG2_SIMPLE                    3 65536  4096  4096
MPEG2_MAIN                      3 65536  4096  4096
H264_BASELINE                  51 65536  4096  4096
H264_MAIN                      51 65536  4096  4096
H264_HIGH                      51 65536  4096  4096
VC1_SIMPLE                      1  8190  2048  2048
VC1_MAIN                        2  8190  2048  2048
VC1_ADVANCED                    4  8190  2048  2048
MPEG4_PART2_SP                  3  8192  2048  2048
MPEG4_PART2_ASP                 5  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_QMOBILE                   0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_MOBILE                    0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER              0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_HD_1080P                  0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_QMOBILE                   0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_MOBILE                    0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER              0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_HD_1080P                  0  8192  2048  2048
H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE      51 65536  4096  4096
H264_EXTENDED                  51 65536  4096  4096
H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH          51 65536  4096  4096
H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH          51 65536  4096  4096
H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE       51 65536  4096  4096
VP9_PROFILE_0                   1 262144  8192  8192
VP9_PROFILE_1                  --- not supported ---
VP9_PROFILE_2                   1 262144  8192  8192
VP9_PROFILE_3                  --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN                      153 262144  8192  8192
HEVC_MAIN_10                   153 262144  8192  8192
HEVC_MAIN_STILL                --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_12                   153 262144  8192  8192
HEVC_MAIN_444                  153 262144  8192  8192
HEVC_MAIN_444_10               153 262144  8192  8192
HEVC_MAIN_444_12               153 262144  8192  8192
AV1_MAIN                       --- not supported ---
AV1_HIGH                       --- not supported ---
AV1_PROFESSIONAL               --- not supported ---

If video codecs is disabled, you will see that H264, VC1, and HEVC are
not supported.

This means that AMD GPUs will not support Hardware Accelerated video
decoding for AVC, HEVC, etc.
Then, such systems will fallback to using the CPU to decode the
videos.

For VLC, you have to disable the decoding settings based on Hardware
Acceralation.

Regards.

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