question: which metric shows H264 decoding?

[markmal]

which metric shows H264 decoding?

[clbr]

None, UVD (decode) and VCE (encode) usage is not currently tracked. They are possible to track, just not implemented yet.

If your gpu is not doing anything else, then the total usage is the same as h264 usage.

[markmal]

Great, thanks! if it is not too hard, could you add UVD/VCE to new version?

[clbr]

Please see the existing issues about it (#29 etc). I don't have any hw with VCE, and while I do have cards with UVD, I'm not too interested in that.

[trek00]

you can try that version with UVD and VCE support

[markmal]

cibr thanks! Hi trek00. Thanks! I've compiled it. It runs. But I do not see UVD. which metric to look?

[trek00]

you should see an entry called Unified Video Decoder

if not, you should get an error message or, with some devices/kernel versions, you may need to run it as root adding to the command line the option --mem

hope this can help you, anyway what GPU model and kernel version do you have? you can check with:

lspci -nn | grep VGA; uname -r

ciao!

[markmal]

There is no entry called Unified Video Decoder, with or without --mem Here is text output

radeontop-1.2$ sudo ./radeontop --mem -d -
Forcing the /dev/mem path.
Dumping to -, until termination.
1575468860.361103: bus 00, gpu 10.00%, ee 10.00%, vgt 0.00%, ta 7.50%, sx 9.17%, sh 9.17%, spi 9.17%, sc 9.17%, pa 0.00%, db 9.17%, cb 10.00%, vram 58.31% 223.91mb, gtt 14.32% 146.29mb

radeontop-1.2$ lspci -nn | grep VGA; uname -r
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] [1002:9802]
5.0.0-36-generic

[trek00]

it should run fine with your card

please double check to have cloned the correct branch:

git clone --branch drm5 https://github.com/trek00/radeontop.git

then compile and check the version:

cd radeontop && make && ./radeontop --version

it should be print:

RadeonTop v1.2-38-gf4fee3c

thank you for testing and sorry for the inconvenience ciao!

[markmal]

Yes, this helped! It shows Unified Video Decoder now.

previously I've downloaded release 1.2 looks like it did not have the feature.

[userofryzen]

it should run fine with your card please double check to have cloned the correct branch: git clone --branch drm5 https://github.com/trek00/radeontop.git then compile and check the version: cd radeontop && make && ./radeontop --version it should be print: RadeonTop v1.2-38-gf4fee3c thank you for testing and sorry for the inconvenience ciao!

radeontop --mem -b 05:00.0 Failed to get UVD usage: error 14 (Dirección incorrecta) Failed to get VCE usage: error 14 (Dirección incorrecta) Forcing the /dev/mem path. Collecting data, please wait.... picasso apu

[hedgepigdaniel]

I've tried applying this patch https://github.com/clbr/radeontop/pull/93/commits/5df288ccb5f6231706d280dedb3a23985dbfb5e8 on the current master, but it doesn't work. I see the "Failed to get UVD usage" without --mem, with with --mem it appears but the value is locked to 100%.

I'm using a 5600XT.

[thetick1234567890]

Can this patch 5df288c please be added to the next release as I think some new users of Firefox hardware acceleration like me would like to see UVD / VCE usage?

So in case anyone does not know Firefox added hardware acceleration recently ( though need Beta 81 )! I have a decade old laptop with AMD Palm Bobcat APU (Radeon HD 6250) that I can NOW watch hardware accelerated HD YouTube videos full screen without lost frames. That is absolutely amazing new life for this decade old 1Gz (Dual Core)) laptop!

[dubigrasu]

Can confirm that the mentioned fork works very well (for me), both UVC&VCE.

[thetick1234567890]

I compiled trek00 drm5 branch awhile back and it works great showing UVD percentage with Firefox using r600 driver streaming H264 files.

@clbr do you plan any new builds? I'm sure I'm not the only one here questioning your devotion to this code base. It has been over 9 months and no new builds with the UVD/VCE support. There are many new Vega and Navi GPUs along with many old UVD / VCE Radeons that now have beautifully working h264 hardware acceleration on Firefox. Many of us are highly interested in the UVD and VCE usage stats even though you clearly are not. And your completely false "If your gpu is not doing anything else, then the total usage is the same as h264 usage" is actually quite upsetting coming from a developer who should know better. Your statement is clearly proved false from the UVD stats I've seen on my machine.

Sorry if I'm I a bit harsh but if you are too busy to do a simple merge , tag, compile and test every six months then please pass ownership of radeontop to someone who does have the time. Thanks.

[clbr]

If you prefer a fork, then use the fork.

[userofryzen]

I think fork is not the way to go.

May be if you can say what's needed on the code side here to be merged, the creator of the code can do it in some time. And may be a flag to enable it or disable it in compilation or execution time would be better than not having this support at all in time.. I am interested in the code but I understand that is YOUR code and you want some exact level of quality or features in some part, so, please, take our concerns too, I know that you have 0 obligations. It's more a favour to all of us.

[thetick1234567890]

Not that my opinion matters more than anyone else I agree 100% with userofryzen. I really don't like forks and it's clbr's code. In this case it's very quick and easy to compile radeontop so I'm OK with compiling my own. And thanks to clbr and all the contributors including trek00 and cnamburu for their past efforts.

[valpackett]

I see the "Failed to get UVD usage" without --mem, with with --mem it appears but the value is locked to 100%.

Same on VEGA10 here

[TomZanna]

Any news? Both #45 and #93 aren't working on my Renoir CPU and a simple rebase is not feasible.

It would be really useful to verify the functioning of the graphics acceleration on Firefox!

[vgarleanu]

Any update on this? Being able to see encode/decode stats would be a killer feature.

[Habraten]

Hardware HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2 AMD RX 550 2Gb ILO on board video

Software CentOS 7.9 (kernel3.10.0-1160.83.1.el7.x86_64) Radeon™ Software for Linux® version 18.50 installed only AMDGPU All-Open

Primary ILO on board video Secondary AMD RX 550

RadeonTop 1.4

I'm trying to figure out how to determine the appearance of the load on the GPU from hardware acceleration VAAPI (decoding) of IP camera sreams.

radeontop shows activity and changes are only in these sensors. the remaining indicators are at zero

`132М / 2043М VRAM 6,45% │

38M / 3065M GTT 1,25% │

0,30G / 1,75G Memory Clock 17,14%

0,58G / 1,18G Shader Clock 48,09%`

radeontop -m show same list

does the change in these indicators mean that GPU decoding video?

[clbr]

does the change in these indicators mean that GPU decoding video?

No, it's not enough to say that for sure. It could be video decoding or any other activity.

Your card's pci id should be present, so not sure why things are at zero. I guess the header says POLARIS12 and not UNKNOWN_CARD?