Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes

Eric Engestrom has published Mesa 24.1-rc2 as the latest weekly release candidate of Mesa 24.1 as we work toward the stable release likely in the next week or two...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-rc2-Released

[Kjell]

I'm really looking forward to upcoming updates

• Mesa 24.1 RADV Vulkan Explicit Sync
• Linux 6.10 AMDGPU Clear Page Tracking
• Wlroots 0.18.0 Explicit Sync support
• Wlroots 0.18.0 Improved scheduler

[Brisse]

With Mesa 24.1-rc2 there are several fixes to the RADV Vulkan Video code

Interesting. Every now and then I give Vulkan Video Decode a try out of curiosity but it's still failing for me when using my Radeon as of Mesa 24.1-rc1, mpv 0.38 and ffmpeg 6.1.1.

I did get it running with my Nvidia-card (535.161.08) for the first time the other day though, but only with --gpu-context=x11vk, not waylandvk.

[galgo]

Noob question, will 24.1 be on Ubuntu 24.04 or do I have to go with a PPA? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...requests/26165 it's all I need (unlocks hardware acceleration on chromium based browsers for amdgpu) If it doesn't, how can I check if this patch will be backported? Thanks.

[dimko]

I wonder if i have 6.10 and said mesa and older gnome 44, will i reap any benefits right now? or do i need to wait till proton can take advantage of this feature or?

[Rauros]

Interesting. Every now and then I give Vulkan Video Decode a try out of curiosity but it's still failing for me when using my Radeon as of Mesa 24.1-rc1, mpv 0.38 and ffmpeg 6.1.1.

I did get it running with my Nvidia-card (535.161.08) for the first time the other day though, but only with --gpu-context=x11vk, not waylandvk.

Its working for me with gpu-api=vulkan and hwdec=vulkan on Gnome. Mesa version is 24.0.6 and mpv 0.38. I couldn't manage to make it work with Plasma.
And its great. Somehow with vulkan decode gpu consumes 40-45 watt. With vaapi it consumes 70-80 watt. So I'm quiet happy with it.

[bosslog]

Its working for me with gpu-api=vulkan and hwdec=vulkan on Gnome. Mesa version is 24.0.6 and mpv 0.38. I couldn't manage to make it work with Plasma.
And its great. Somehow with vulkan decode gpu consumes 40-45 watt. With vaapi it consumes 70-80 watt. So I'm quiet happy with it.

Weird, I get the following error

Device does not support the VK_KHR_video_decode_queue extension!​

even though I'm on Mesa 24.0.6 with an RX 6650 XT.

Edit: it works if I set

RADV_PERFTEST=video_decode

[Rauros]

Weird, I get the following error

Device does not support the VK_KHR_video_decode_queue extension!​

even though I'm on Mesa 24.0.6 with an RX 6650 XT.

Yep that was the error I was getting on plasma. It works with Gnome though.

[bosslog]

Yep that was the error I was getting on plasma. It works with Gnome though.

Just found out it works (for H264 and H265) if I set

RADV_PERFTEST=video_decode

But for some reason AV1 hardware decoding only works with vaapi, not with vulkan.

[aviallon]

Just found out it works (for H264 and H265) if I set

RADV_PERFTEST=video_decode

But for some reason AV1 hardware decoding only works with vaapi, not with vulkan.

Yep, vulkan av1 video decode is very very recent, and only implemented in Mesa 24.1 iirc.