HW Transcoding artifacts

[furflix]

@ChuckPa

/tmp/plexinstaller.log

are those 0 ok?

NeedOpenCL=0
NeedBeignet=0
NeedIntelCompute=0
HaveIntelGmmlib=1
HaveIntelIGCCore=1
HaveIntelIGCOpenCL=1
HaveIntelOpenCL=1
HaveIntelOCLoc=1
HaveIntelZeroGPU=1
HaveIntelCompute=1
HaveBeignet=0
HaveOpenCL=0

[ChuckPa]

NeedOpenCL=0 – what I’m fixing
NeedIntelCompute=0 – what I’m fixing

Beignet items don’t matter because Intel Compute is the library for -10xxx and above.

HaveXXXXXX = correct inventory report

Those 6 tell me your machine has all it needs. Now we need hope your kernel can do it. If not, then you need to wait with the rest of us . (COVID really hurt this capability). We need the Linux kernel guys ( i915 team ) to add the support.

[furflix]

not having luck. Looks like we will need to wait for using this beauty Thanks for all your help and patience Chuck. Enjoy your weekend!

[jrniemand]

Looks like my hardware transcoding problem was fixed by installing Intel Compute Runtime. I saw an update was released last night, so I tested with both 1.23.xxxx versions and both are transcoding correctly. Thanks for all your help.

plexinstaller_1.23.1.4602-280ab6053.log (1.1 KB)
plexinstaller_1.23.1.4571-6119e8eed.log (1.1 KB)

[furflix]

Chuck, may I ask you something? Probably has nothing to do with the green artifacts I’m having while using HW transcode, but maybe you can help me:

When I install the latest ubuntu kernel from the mainline ppa, it’s showing me this warning:

W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/bxt_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/glk_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/cml_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/icl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/ehl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/ehl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_huc_7.5.0.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_huc_7.5.0.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/dg1_dmc_ver2_02.bin for module i915

Do you have any idea what am I doing wrong?

[ChuckPa]

HOLY *****

That is not cool.

Distro is “broken” in that the package file wasn’t created correctly / complete contents.

[furflix]

yes i would kent

[furflix]

I’m reading on Internet, that I should install “firmware-misc-nonfree”… but idk. I’m always worried to break everything on Linux…

This is what I have currently:

# dpkg --get-selections | grep linux-
linux-base                                      install
linux-firmware                                  install
linux-generic-hwe-20.04                         install
linux-headers-5.12.9-051209                     install
linux-headers-5.8.0-53-generic                  install
linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04                 install
linux-hwe-5.8-headers-5.8.0-53                  install
linux-image-5.8.0-53-generic                    install
linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04                   install
linux-image-unsigned-5.12.9-051209-generic      install
linux-modules-5.12.9-051209-generic             install
linux-modules-5.8.0-53-generic                  install
linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-53-generic            install

I keep the HWE kernel, just in case something goes wrong with the kernel I’m installing manually.

[ChuckPa]

I think you should , if possible, find a “development machine” you can use for playing with the kernel.

At some point, the machine will get trashed when playing with these things – even as a developer. Don’t your production blox.