I use system monitor from KDE.
I tried loading into CinGG an 8k video; 60 fps; AV1
(supported by vaapi) and mkv. I ran the playback, but I do not detect
GPU utilization.
The GPU load varies from 0 to 10%, but these are normal variations
that are repeated even
with GPU at rest. The CPU has a load of about 30%.
With the appimage I have: GPU = Same values. CPU = about 60%.
Confirmation is the terminal message:
"Decoder libdav1d does not support device type vaapi."
I also tried vdpau (which for AMD GPU is a wrapper that leads to vaapi) and the
result is the same:
"Decoder libdav1d does not support device type vdpau."
Interesting, so av1 does not decode in hw in our case ... something to investigate, but I have no relevant hardware ...
I tried a second video: 4k; 60 fps; HEVC; mp4. The video does not load
and I have numerous
errors like:
"file: /home/paz/video_editing/free_video/Life Untouched 4K Demo.mp4
int FFVideoConvert::convert_picture_vframe(VFrame*, AVFrame*, AVFrame*):
Error retrieving data from GPU to CPU"
hm, ah, second error! Was it 10bit hevc by the way?
With appimage I have no loading errors, but still the GPU is not engaged:
"file:/home/paz/video_editing/free_video/Life Untouched 4K Demo.mp4
err: Operation not permitted
Failed HW device create.
dev:vaapi
err: Input/output error
HW device init failed, using SW decode."
I think appimage may have outdated libva inside it, so course of action was to unpack it and delete this library ....
Finally using mpv from the command line (set to vaapi):
$ mpv 'Life Untouched 4K Demo.mp4'
GPU = 30-60%
CPU = 0-2%
Well, finally it works :) But not for us .... I'll try to add a bit more debug at least temporarily
Thanks for testing!