[Cin] Prepping HW upgrade options for AV1 de-/encoding

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

пн, 4 дек. 2023 г., 00:29 Terje J. Hanssen via Cin <
cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org>:

> Already touched this topic barely in another thread
> https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/pipermail/cin/2023-December/007346.html
>
> But so many SW and HW pieces are mentioned around, it is almost a
> full-time reading and study:
> VAAPI, MESA, VULKAN, Intel Quick Sync Video etc......
>
> I realize my aging hardware which is fast enough for other tasks, needs
> some "AV1 upgrade", if possible.
>
> But first I wonder, what is expected possible to do (obtain) with AV1
> de-/encoding on my existing 64bit hardware:
>
> 1) laptop 2018: Dell XPS 13-9370: quad core i7-8550U CPU (8. gen Kabylake)
> and Intel UHD Graphics
>
> 2) WS infinity:  MSI Z170A mobo:  quad core i7-6700K CPU (6. gen Skylake),
> NVIDIA GeForce GT-730 graphics
>
>
> A budget friendly first "AV1 HW upgrade" of the workstation 2) if
> possible, would be to add a new GPU as Intel Arc A380.
> But the question is if this will work at all on that much older (2015)
> Skylake platform with i7-6700K CPU?
> I've seen CPU bottlenecks has been mentioned and that Arc A380 is targeted
> at newer generations CPU ...
>

I digged up this:

https://community.intel.com/t5/Media-Intel-Video-Processing/ffmpeg-6-using-qsv-on-ARC380/m-p/1524165/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8dG9waWNfc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ufExNS0o5N1ZLMzlUMkRIfDE1MjQxNjV8U1VCU0NSSVBUSU9OU3xoSw

url is ...eeeh.

I hope vaapi/qsv by themselves does not consume too much cpu during video
operations. Only opengl/opencl performance probably might be not really
great ...



>
>
> References:
> AV1 Encoding on a Budget: The Intel Arc A380 Approach
>
> https://medium.com/@contact_45426/av1-encoding-on-a-budget-the-intel-arc-a380-approach-d72367f2f349
>
> https://history-computer.com/intel-arc-a380-full-review-of-intels-entry-level-gpu/
>
> AV1 fixed-function hardware encoder is included in Alchemist GPUs as part
> of the Intel Quick Sync Video core.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Arc#Alchemist
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardware_decoding_and_encoding
>
>
> Terje J. H
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