VAAPI transcoding problem? am I using wrong version?

Evren Yurtesen

I have "HTS Tvheadend 4.2.9~pre+201910311127-0~built201910311332~gitcfa450e~ubuntu19.10.1" installed from mamarley/stable repository.

I am able to use VAAPI with ffmpeg locally. In Tvheadend stream I see 'hevc_vaapi: H265/HEVC (VAAPI)'

But if I try to use it when recording, it just fails:

Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: libav: Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead. Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: message repeated 2 times: [ libav: Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.] Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: libav: frame size not set Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: dvr: /home/hts/Tvheadend/MTV3 HD/Tulosruutu/Tulosruutu2019-11-0920-25-1.ts from adapter: "Panasonic MN88473 #0 : DVB-C #1", network: "Telia Turku", mux: "410MHz", provider: "MTV3", service: "MTV3 HD" Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: dvr: # type lang resolution aspect ratio sample rate channels Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: dvr: 1 HEVC 1920x1080 ? <disabled, no valid input> Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: dvr: 2 AAC fin 48000 2 Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: dvr: 4 DVBSUB fin Nov 9 20:26:09 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: dvr: 5 DVBSUB dut Nov 9 20:26:25 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: subscription: 0049: "DVR: Tulosruutu" unsubscribing from "MTV3 HD"

If I try to stream it to another device it also fails


Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: transcode: 000A: 1:H264 1920x1080 ==> HEVC 1920x1080 (hevc_vaapi)
Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: transcode: 000A: 2:MPEG2AUDIO ==> AAC (aac)
Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: transcode: 000A: 3:TELETEXT ==> Filtered
Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: transcode: 000A: 4:DVBSUB ==> Passthrough
Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: subscription: 004A: "::ffff:192.168.1.221 [  | Kodi Media Center ]" subscribing on channel "Sub HD", weight: 100, adapter: "Panasonic MN88473 #1 : DVB-C #1", network: "Telia Turku", mux: "298MHz", provider: "MTV OY", service: "Sub HD", profile="h265_lo", hostname="::ffff:192.168.1.221", username="::ffff:192.168.1.221", client="Kodi Media Center"
Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: transcode: 000A: Using preset ultrafast
Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: libav: Specified pixel format yuv420p is invalid or not supported
Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: transcode: 000A: Unable to open hevc_vaapi encoder
Nov  9 20:32:10 ubuntu tvheadend[1489]: tsfix: The timediff for TELETEXT is big (2432829531), using current dts

Do I need 4.3 version of tvheadend?

Thanks!

Evren Yurtesen

Well I upgraded to `4.3.0~pre+201911040835-0~built201911041332~gitfda89e8~ubuntu19.10.1` but it does not seem to work either.

I am able to use MPEG-TS Spawn with the following command

ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i pipe:0 -vf 'yadif,format=nv12,hwupload' -map 0:a? -map 0:s? -map 0:v? -c:a aac -c:s copy -c:v hevc_vaapi -f mpegts pipe:1

But not sure why tvheadend is not able to use it directly. I am still seeing <disabled, no valid input>.
Stranglely streaming does not work at all either and I think it said 'Filtered' for all fields. It is very late (or early) right now and I have to look at it again later. :(

Evren Yurtesen

If I disable deinterlacing I get the following error:

Nov 10 14:27:43 ubuntu tvheadend[7682]: libav: AVCodecContext: Driver does not support some wanted packed headers (wanted 0xd, found 0).
Nov 10 14:27:43 ubuntu tvheadend[7682]: libav: TVHGraph: Impossible to convert between the formats supported by the filter 'in' and the filter 'auto_scaler_0'
Nov 10 14:27:43 ubuntu tvheadend[7682]: transcode: 0015: 01:HEVC: [mpeg2video => hevc_vaapi]: filters: failed to config filter graph

Saen Acro

What is this version4.3.0~pre+201911040835-0~built201911041332~gitfda89e8~ubuntu19.10.1

current is4.3-1854~gfda89e85e

What GPU you use?
Post info from:
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Evren Yurtesen

I installed it from Michael Marley's daily git builds repository, that is why the version number looks like that.

https://launchpad.net/~mamarley/+archive/ubuntu/tvheadend-git

I am using AMD RX 570. Below is the vainfo output

libva info: VA-API version 1.5.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_5 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 1.5 (libva 2.5.0) vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 19.2.1 for Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10, DRM 3.33.0, 5.3.0-19-generic, LLVM 9.0.0) vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc

Below is the details frame information:


Configure arguments:
  --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --enable-hdhomerun_client --disable-hdhomerun_static --disable-dvbscan --enable-libav --disable-ffmpeg_static --enable-libx264 --disable-libx264_static --enable-libx265 --disable-libx265_static --enable-libvpx --disable-libvpx_static --enable-libtheora --disable-libtheora_static --enable-libvorbis --disable-libvorbis_static --enable-libfdkaac --disable-libfdkaac_static --enable-libopus --disable-libopus_static --enable-vaapi --enable-nvenc --enable-omx --enable-dvbcsa --enable-dvben50221 --enable-libsystemd_daemon --enable-pcre2 --enable-pngquant --enable-ddci

Compiler:
  Using C compiler:                        cc
  Using C flags:                           -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/tvheadend-DYaMoQ/tvheadend-4.3.0~pre+201911040835=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security
  Using LD flags:                          -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -lhdhomerun -ldvbcsa
  Build for arch:                          x86_64

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  Using PYTHON:                            python
  Using GZIP:                              gzip
  Using BZIP2:                             bzip2

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  satip_server                             yes
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  tsfile                                   yes
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  timeshift                                yes
  trace                                    yes
  avahi                                    yes
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  libtheora                                yes
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  libopus                                  yes
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  uriparser                                yes
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  tvhcsa                                   yes
  bundle                                   no
  pngquant                                 yes
  kqueue                                   no
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  gtimer_check                             no
  slow_memoryinfo                          no
  libsystemd_daemon                        yes
  pcloud_cache                             yes
  ddci                                     yes
  cclang_threadsan                         no
  gperftools                               no
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  sse2                                     yes
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  atomic_time_t                            yes
  atomic_ptr                               yes
  bitops64                                 yes
  lockowner                                yes
  qsort_r                                  yes
  stime                                    yes
  gmtoff                                   yes
  recvmmsg                                 yes
  sendmmsg                                 yes
  ifnames                                  yes
  py_gzip                                  yes
  bin_pkg_config                           yes
  bin_xgettext                             yes
  bin_msgmerge                             yes
  bin_gzip                                 yes
  bin_bzip2                                yes
  ssl                                      yes
  linuxdvbapi                              yes
  linuxdvb_ca                              yes
  libhdhomerun                             yes
  upnp                                     yes
  hwaccels                                 yes
  inotify_h                                yes
  inotify_init1                            yes
  dvbcsa                                   yes
  epoll_create1                            yes
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  libpcre2-8                               10.32
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Installation paths:
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  Libraries:                               /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
  Data files:                              ${prefix}/share
  Man pages:                               /usr/share/man

Saen Acro

Troblem can be everywhere becose using os libs

Try to build it as this
https://tvheadend.org/d/4492-manual-building-deb-packages-on-clean-ubuntu-or-other-debian-distros

Evren Yurtesen

What do you mean by using OS libs? What else can it use?

When mamarley/ppa is built against Ubuntu 19.10, it uses the same libs that I have as I am using 19.10 also. Is there any reason why me building it should result in any different result? I feel that we need to debug the issue instead of trying to randomly rebuild. Because when it does not work, we still won't know what is the problem. By some miracle if it works, then we won't know why it worked, which makes it not very useful.

I will never the less build it, but you think the configure arguments given are fine? Because I will use exactly same as what mamarley's build is using I think. He seemed to have everything necessary enabled...

By the way, ffmpeg works for encoding with vaapi and kodi is able to use it for hardware decoding if it makes any difference...

Saen Acro

Static library for ffmpeg and codecs is disabled
TVH can build own internal version of ffmpeg + codecs

Evren Yurtesen

So you wanted static build of ffmpeg etc. OK!

I am building using Autobuild.sh, below is what it said... I guess it satisfies what you want to accomplish?


Compiler:
  Using C compiler:                        cc
  Using LD flags:                           -ldvbcsa
  Build for arch:                          x86_64

Binaries:
  Using PYTHON:                            python
  Using GZIP:                              gzip
  Using BZIP2:                             bzip2

Options:
  pie                                      yes
  ccdebug                                  no
  cardclient                               yes
  cwc                                      yes
  cccam                                    yes
  capmt                                    yes
  constcw                                  yes
  linuxdvb                                 yes
  satip_server                             yes
  satip_client                             yes
  hdhomerun_client                         yes
  hdhomerun_static                         yes
  iptv                                     yes
  tsfile                                   yes
  dvbscan                                  yes
  timeshift                                yes
  trace                                    yes
  avahi                                    yes
  zlib                                     yes
  libav                                    yes
  ffmpeg_static                            yes
  libx264                                  yes
  libx264_static                           yes
  libx265                                  yes
  libx265_static                           yes
  libvpx                                   yes
  libvpx_static                            yes
  libtheora                                yes
  libtheora_static                         yes
  libvorbis                                yes
  libvorbis_static                         yes
  libfdkaac                                no
  libfdkaac_static                         no
  libopus                                  yes
  libopus_static                           yes
  nvenc                                    no
  vaapi                                    yes
  mmal                                     no
  omx                                      no
  inotify                                  yes
  epoll                                    yes
  pcre                                     no
  pcre2                                    yes
  uriparser                                yes
  ccache                                   no
  tvhcsa                                   yes
  bundle                                   no
  pngquant                                 no
  kqueue                                   no
  dbus_1                                   yes
  android                                  no
  gtimer_check                             no
  slow_memoryinfo                          no
  libsystemd_daemon                        no
  pcloud_cache                             yes
  ddci                                     yes
  cclang_threadsan                         no
  gperftools                               no
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  mmx                                      yes
  sse2                                     yes
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  f_PIE                                    yes
  fdatasync                                yes
  getloadavg                               yes
  atomic32                                 yes
  atomic64                                 yes
  atomic_time_t                            yes
  atomic_ptr                               yes
  bitops64                                 yes
  lockowner                                yes
  qsort_r                                  yes
  stime                                    yes
  gmtoff                                   yes
  recvmmsg                                 yes
  sendmmsg                                 yes
  ifnames                                  yes
  py_gzip                                  yes
  bin_pkg_config                           yes
  bin_xgettext                             yes
  bin_msgmerge                             yes
  bin_gzip                                 yes
  bin_bzip2                                yes
  ssl                                      yes
  linuxdvbapi                              yes
  linuxdvb_ca                              yes
  upnp                                     yes
  bin_cmake                                yes
  stdcpp                                   yes
  libogg_static                            yes
  hwaccels                                 yes
  inotify_h                                yes
  inotify_init1                            yes
  dvbcsa                                   yes
  epoll_create1                            yes
  mpegts                                   yes
  mpegts_dvb                               yes

Packages:
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  zlib                                     1.2.11
  libpcre2-8                               10.32
  liburiparser                             0.9.3
  avahi-client                             0.7
  libva                                    1.5.0
  libva-x11                                1.5.0
  libva-drm                                1.5.0
  dbus-1                                   1.12.14

Installation paths:
  Prefix:                                  /usr
  Binaries:                                ${prefix}/bin
  Libraries:                               ${prefix}/lib
  Data files:                              ${prefix}/share
  Man pages:                               /usr/share/man

Final Binary:
  /home/eyurtese/tvheadend/build.linux/tvheadend

Tvheadend Data Directory:
  /usr/share/tvheadend

Saen Acro

Is it work?

Evren Yurtesen

but of course it would not compile.... nice :)


make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/eyurtese/tvheadend'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/eyurtese/tvheadend'
CC              src/version.o
CC              src/uuid.o
CC              src/main.o
In file included from /home/eyurtese/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/build/ffmpeg/include/libavutil/common.h:488,
                 from /home/eyurtese/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/build/ffmpeg/include/libavutil/avutil.h:296,
                 from /home/eyurtese/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/build/ffmpeg/include/libavutil/samplefmt.h:24,
                 from /home/eyurtese/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/build/ffmpeg/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h:31,
                 from /home/eyurtese/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/build/ffmpeg/include/libavformat/avformat.h:319,
                 from src/libav.h:26,
                 from src/main.c:70:
/home/eyurtese/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/build/ffmpeg/include/libavutil/mem.h:342:1: error: ‘alloc_size’ attribute ignored on a function returning ‘int’ [-Werror=attributes]
  342 | av_alloc_size(2, 3) int av_reallocp_array(void *ptr, size_t nmemb, size_t size);
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[3]: *** [Makefile:717: /home/eyurtese/tvheadend/build.linux/src/main.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/eyurtese/tvheadend'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:110: ffmpeg_all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/eyurtese/tvheadend'
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:15: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/eyurtese/tvheadend'
make: *** [debian/rules:6: build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

Evren Yurtesen

Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> but of course it would not compile.... nice :)
>

> [...]

It looks like tvheadend downloaded some old version which does not have the fix:

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=4361293fcf59edb56879c36edcd25f0a91e0edf8

I am trying to build it with gcc8 again...

Evren Yurtesen

Well it now compiled, but it does exactly same thing... I am using KODI as client to stream... So what now?

This is what it says with default options, there is sound but no video..


Nov 10 21:59:06 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0003: 01:MPEG2VIDEO: ==> Using profile vaapi-h265
Nov 10 21:59:06 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0003: 02:MPEG2AUDIO: ==> Using profile webtv-aac
Nov 10 21:59:06 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0003: 03:DVBSUB: ==> Copy
Nov 10 21:59:06 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0003: 05:MPEG2AUDIO: ==> Filtered out
Nov 10 21:59:07 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: libav: AVCodecContext: Driver does not support some wanted packed headers (wanted 0xd, found 0).

and with deinterlacing disabled in codec profiles. Also only sound...


Nov 10 22:00:28 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0004: 01:MPEG2VIDEO: ==> Using profile vaapi-h265
Nov 10 22:00:28 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0004: 02:MPEG2AUDIO: ==> Using profile webtv-aac
Nov 10 22:00:28 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0004: 03:DVBSUB: ==> Copy
Nov 10 22:00:28 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0004: 05:MPEG2AUDIO: ==> Filtered out
Nov 10 22:00:29 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: libav: AVCodecContext: Driver does not support some wanted packed headers (wanted 0xd, found 0).
Nov 10 22:00:29 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: libav: TVHGraph: Impossible to convert between the formats supported by the filter 'in' and the filter 'auto_scaler_0'
Nov 10 22:00:29 ubuntu tvheadend[25768]: transcode: 0004: 01:HEVC: [mpeg2video => hevc_vaapi]: filters: failed to config filter graph

This is what I see in about->details now


Configure arguments:
  --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/tvheadend --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking

Compiler:
  Using C compiler:                        cc
  Using LD flags:                           -ldvbcsa
  Build for arch:                          x86_64

Binaries:
  Using PYTHON:                            python
  Using GZIP:                              gzip
  Using BZIP2:                             bzip2

Options:
  pie                                      yes
  ccdebug                                  no
  cardclient                               yes
  cwc                                      yes
  cccam                                    yes
  capmt                                    yes
  constcw                                  yes
  linuxdvb                                 yes
  satip_server                             yes
  satip_client                             yes
  hdhomerun_client                         yes
  hdhomerun_static                         yes
  iptv                                     yes
  tsfile                                   yes
  dvbscan                                  yes
  timeshift                                yes
  trace                                    yes
  avahi                                    yes
  zlib                                     yes
  libav                                    yes
  ffmpeg_static                            yes
  libx264                                  yes
  libx264_static                           yes
  libx265                                  yes
  libx265_static                           yes
  libvpx                                   yes
  libvpx_static                            yes
  libtheora                                yes
  libtheora_static                         yes
  libvorbis                                yes
  libvorbis_static                         yes
  libfdkaac                                no
  libfdkaac_static                         no
  libopus                                  yes
  libopus_static                           yes
  nvenc                                    no
  vaapi                                    yes
  mmal                                     no
  omx                                      no
  inotify                                  yes
  epoll                                    yes
  pcre                                     no
  pcre2                                    yes
  uriparser                                yes
  ccache                                   no
  tvhcsa                                   yes
  bundle                                   no
  pngquant                                 no
  kqueue                                   no
  dbus_1                                   yes
  android                                  no
  gtimer_check                             no
  slow_memoryinfo                          no
  libsystemd_daemon                        no
  pcloud_cache                             yes
  ddci                                     yes
  cclang_threadsan                         no
  gperftools                               no
  execinfo                                 yes
  mmx                                      yes
  sse2                                     yes
  W_unused_result                          yes
  f_stack_protector                        yes
  f_stack_protector_strong                 yes
  f_stack_check                            yes
  f_PIE                                    yes
  fdatasync                                yes
  getloadavg                               yes
  atomic32                                 yes
  atomic64                                 yes
  atomic_time_t                            yes
  atomic_ptr                               yes
  bitops64                                 yes
  lockowner                                yes
  qsort_r                                  yes
  stime                                    yes
  gmtoff                                   yes
  recvmmsg                                 yes
  sendmmsg                                 yes
  ifnames                                  yes
  py_gzip                                  yes
  bin_pkg_config                           yes
  bin_xgettext                             yes
  bin_msgmerge                             yes
  bin_gzip                                 yes
  bin_bzip2                                yes
  ssl                                      yes
  linuxdvbapi                              yes
  linuxdvb_ca                              yes
  upnp                                     yes
  bin_cmake                                yes
  stdcpp                                   yes
  libogg_static                            yes
  hwaccels                                 yes
  inotify_h                                yes
  inotify_init1                            yes
  dvbcsa                                   yes
  epoll_create1                            yes
  mpegts                                   yes
  mpegts_dvb                               yes

Packages:
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  zlib                                     1.2.11
  libpcre2-8                               10.32
  liburiparser                             0.9.3
  avahi-client                             0.7
  libva                                    1.5.0
  libva-x11                                1.5.0
  libva-drm                                1.5.0
  dbus-1                                   1.12.14

Installation paths:
  Prefix:                                  /usr
  Binaries:                                ${prefix}/bin
  Libraries:                               ${prefix}/lib
  Data files:                              ${prefix}/share
  Man pages:                               /usr/share/man

Evren Yurtesen

It looks like the same problem I am having...
https://tvheadend.org/issues/5465 hmm...

Saen Acro

It is possible ;(

https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/f8ad2ddd7a51df5d6e768ba2a6f65ee64b94e29b can be good patch for begining

Evren Yurtesen

AMF only supports H264 on Linux and Tvheadend does not support it. It has to be selected like VAAPI. So that patch is not useful for the issue at hand. FFMPEG already works with VAAPI.

There is a problem with Tvheadend. I think it is using something wrong when starting encoding.

I think either Jaroslav or lekma know this better as they seem to have coded the VAAPI support. This needs debugging at Tvheadend side, I need some pointers to how to debug it and what to test.
I could buy them an AMD GPU if they would be interested :)

Evren Yurtesen

Here is related logs from libav, there is no picture...


Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: transcode: 0001: 01:MPEG2VIDEO: ==> Using profile vaapi-h265
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: transcode: 0001: 02:MPEG2AUDIO: ==> Using profile webtv-aac
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: transcode: 0001: 03:DVBSUB: ==> Copy
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: transcode: 0001: 05:DVBSUB: ==> Filtered out
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: TS: Telia Turku/250MHz/Yle TV1 Transport error indicator (total 1)
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Format yuv420p chosen by get_format().
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: detected 12 logical cores
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'time_base' to value '1/90000'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'sample_rate' to value '48000'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'sample_fmt' to value 's16p'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'channel_layout' to value 'stereo'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: tb:1/90000 samplefmt:s16p samplerate:48000 chlayout:stereo
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilterGraph: query_formats: 3 queried, 6 merged, 0 already done, 0 delayed
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: SWResampler: Using s16p internally between filters
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: ch:2 chl:stereo fmt:s16p r:48000Hz -> ch:2 chl:stereo fmt:fltp r:48000Hz
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Skipping B slice due to open GOP
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: message repeated 107 times: [ libav: AVCodecContext: Skipping B slice due to open GOP]
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Opened VA display via DRM device /dev/dri/renderD128.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: libva: VA-API version 1.5.0
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: libva: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_5
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Initialised VAAPI connection: version 1.5
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x3231564e -> nv12.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x30313050 -> p010le.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x36313050 -> unknown.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x32315659 -> yuv420p.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x56595559 -> unknown.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x59565955 -> uyvy422.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x41524742 -> bgra.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x41424752 -> rgba.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x58524742 -> bgr0.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Format 0x58424752 -> rgb0.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: VAAPI driver: Mesa Gallium driver 19.2.1 for Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10, DRM 3.33.0, 5.3.0-19-generic, LLVM 9.0.0).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWDeviceContext: Driver not found in known nonstandard list, using standard behaviour.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x2.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Direct mapping disabled: deriving image does not work: 1 (operation failed).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x3.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x4.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x5.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x6.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x7.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x8.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x9.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0xa.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0xb.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0xc.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0xd.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0xe.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0xf.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x10.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x11.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x12.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x13.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x14.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x15.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x16.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x17.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x18.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x19.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x1a.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x1b.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x1c.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x1d.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x1e.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x1f.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x20.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x21.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Input surface format is nv12.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Using VAAPI profile VAProfileHEVCMain (17).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Using VAAPI entrypoint VAEntrypointEncSlice (6).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Using VAAPI render target format YUV420 (0x1).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Using constant-quality mode.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Using intra and P-frames (supported references: 1 / 0).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Driver does not support some wanted packed headers (wanted 0xd, found 0).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Using nv12 as format of reconstructed frames.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x22.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Direct mapping disabled: deriving image does not work: 1 (operation failed).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x23.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x24.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Using fixed QP = 25 / 25 / 30 for IDR- / P- / B-frames.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Using level 3.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'video_size' to value '720x576'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'pix_fmt' to value 'yuv420p'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'time_base' to value '1/50'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'pixel_aspect' to value '64/45'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: w:720 h:576 pixfmt:yuv420p tb:1/50 fr:0/1 sar:64/45 sws_param:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: Setting 'pix_fmts' to value 'nv12|vaapi_vld'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: w:iw h:ih flags:'bilinear' interl:0
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: auto-inserting filter 'auto_scaler_0' between the filter 'Parsed_yadif_0' and the filter 'Parsed_format_1'
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilterGraph: query_formats: 5 queried, 3 merged, 1 already done, 0 delayed
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVFilter: w:720 h:576 fmt:yuv420p sar:64/45 -> w:720 h:576 fmt:nv12 sar:64/45 flags:0x2
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: hwupload: Surface format is nv12.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Created surface 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Direct mapping disabled: deriving image does not work: 1 (operation failed).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Map surface 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Unmap surface 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Encode frame: 720x576 (48959).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Pictures ending truncated GOP:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Pictures:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:  IDR (0/0)
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Issuing encode for pic 0/0 as type IDR.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: No reference pictures.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Input surface is 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Recon surface is 0x24.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Allocated output buffer 0x27
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Output buffer is 0x27.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Param buffer (22) is 0x28.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Param buffer (23) is 0x29.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Slice 0: 0-17 (18 rows), 0-413 (414 blocks).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Param buffer (24) is 0x2a.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Sync to pic 0/0 (input surface 0x26).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Output buffer: 12064 bytes (status 10101010).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Output read for pic 0/0.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Map surface 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Unmap surface 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Encode frame: 720x576 (52559).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Pictures:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:  IDR (0/0)
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:  P (1/1)
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Issuing encode for pic 1/1 as type P.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Refers to:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:  0/0
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: .
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Input surface is 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Recon surface is 0x23.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Output buffer is 0x27.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Param buffer (23) is 0x28.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Slice 0: 0-17 (18 rows), 0-413 (414 blocks).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Param buffer (24) is 0x29.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Sync to pic 1/1 (input surface 0x26).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Output buffer: 5880 bytes (status 10101010).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Output read for pic 1/1.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Map surface 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVHWFramesContext: Unmap surface 0x26.
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Encode frame: 720x576 (56159).
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext: Pictures:
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:  P (1/1)
Nov 11 12:04:21 ubuntu tvheadend[13113]: libav: AVCodecContext:  P (2/2)

M A Ben Amara

would also be nice to add support for 10bit hevc stream decode

i always get this error when trying to transcode from 2160p to 1080p streams ...

vaapi: decode: unsupported pixel format: yuv420p10le

so i guess the buildin ffmpeg is for 8bit only, i ll have to check how it ends up when using hevc as codec (output) if that makes a difference.

im running tvheadend actually in a docker enviroment (lsio) but i assume its dependant to the tvheadend ffmpeg used.

h264 is all fine here, no issues here

INTEL iGPU UHD630 (i7-8700)

Evren Yurtesen

@"M A Ben Amara" I am not sure how what you are saying is related to the problem. First of all I am not using hardware decoding. My problem is about encoding, not about decoding. You will end up exactly in the same place when you encode using HEVC because you have problem decoding the stream.

Anyway, I am already receiving transmission in h264. I need it in h265 to save space when recording. I am not sure why I would use docker for this purpose. I built tvheadend myself and let it download and compile ffmpeg version it likes. It should work, but it does not.

Hopefully somebody with an AMD GPU can chime in and tell if they could get it working.

M A Ben Amara

you are right, i have a different issue and it doesnt belong here, i ll make a new topic with some debugging when i find time. and no, i didnt wanted to advice to use a docker, sorry.

my issue is only hevc decoding (encoding to hevc seems to work here)

sorry for the wrong post.