Cannot use hwaccel ffmpeg arguments with frigate

[wladkolc]

Camera

Frigate go2rtc RTSP restream

Firmware version of the camera

N/A

Description

Hi, trying to accelerate decoding stream from frigate with Intel iGPU. Anybody got this working?

Error: usage: unifi-cam-proxy frigate [-h] [--ffmpeg-args FFMPEG_ARGS]
                               [--rtsp-transport {tcp,udp,http,udp_multicast}]
                               --source SOURCE [SOURCE ...]
                               [--http-api HTTP_API]
                               [--snapshot-url SNAPSHOT_URL] --mqtt-host
                               MQTT_HOST [--mqtt-port MQTT_PORT]
                               [--mqtt-username MQTT_USERNAME]
                               [--mqtt-password MQTT_PASSWORD]
                               [--mqtt-prefix MQTT_PREFIX] --frigate-camera
                               FRIGATE_CAMERA
unifi-cam-proxy frigate: error: argument --ffmpeg-args/-f: expected one argument

My parameters:

unifi-cam-proxy -H ip -i ip --mac 'mac' -c /client.pem -t token --model "UVC G4 Pro" --fw-version "4.46.18" frigate -s 'rtsp://ip:8554/entrance' --frigate-camera entrance --mqtt-host ip --mqtt-port 1883 --mqtt-prefix frigate --ffmpeg-args '-hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel_output_format yuv420p'

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[keshavdv]

Add a space before the value of the argument: --ffmpeg-args ' -hwaccel.... This is just a weird behavior of argparse (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16174992/cant-get-argparse-to-read-quoted-string-with-dashes-in-it)

[wladkolc]

Hi, now i see this error in log..

ffmpeg version 5.1.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 12.2.1 (Alpine 12.2.1_git20220924-r4) 20220924
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libpulse --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libtheora --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libdav1d --enable-lto --enable-postproc --enable-pic --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-libxcb --enable-librist --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libvidstab --disable-stripping --disable-static --disable-librtmp --disable-lzma --enable-libaom --enable-libopus --enable-libsoxr --enable-libwebp --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-vulkan --enable-libdrm --enable-libzmq --optflags=-O2 --disable-debug --enable-libsvtav1
  libavutil      57. 28.100 / 57. 28.100
  libavcodec     59. 37.100 / 59. 37.100
  libavformat    59. 27.100 / 59. 27.100
  libavdevice    59.  7.100 / 59.  7.100
  libavfilter     8. 44.100 /  8. 44.100
  libswscale      6.  7.100 /  6.  7.100
  libswresample   4.  7.100 /  4.  7.100
  libpostproc    56.  6.100 / 56.  6.100
2023-04-26 15:34:40 5236dbe61402 FrigateCam[1] INFO Spawning ffmpeg for video1 (85Pc3Q0yEYmXkEhf): ffmpeg -nostdin -loglevel error -y -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -fflags +genpts+discardcorrupt -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1 -timeout 15000000 -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://10.20.0.20:8554/entrance"  -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel_output_format yuv420p -metadata streamName=85Pc3Q0yEYmXkEhf -f flv - | /usr/local/bin/python -m unifi.clock_sync --write-timestamps | nc 10.20.0.1 7550
2023-04-26 15:34:40 5236dbe61402 FrigateCam[1] INFO Processing [ChangeVideoSettings] message
ffmpeg version 5.1.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 12.2.1 (Alpine 12.2.1_git20220924-r4) 20220924
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libpulse --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libtheora --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libdav1d --enable-lto --enable-postproc --enable-pic --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-libxcb --enable-librist --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libvidstab --disable-stripping --disable-static --disable-librtmp --disable-lzma --enable-libaom --enable-libopus --enable-libsoxr --enable-libwebp --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-vulkan --enable-libdrm --enable-libzmq --optflags=-O2 --disable-debug --enable-libsvtav1
  libavutil      57. 28.100 / 57. 28.100
  libavcodec     59. 37.100 / 59. 37.100
  libavformat    59. 27.100 / 59. 27.100
  libavdevice    59.  7.100 / 59.  7.100
  libavfilter     8. 44.100 /  8. 44.100
  libswscale      6.  7.100 /  6.  7.100
  libswresample   4.  7.100 /  4.  7.100
  libpostproc    56.  6.100 / 56.  6.100
[h264 @ 0x7f31ac225b80] reference picture missing during reorder
[h264 @ 0x7f31ac225b80] Missing reference picture, default is 2
[h264 @ 0x7f31ac225b80] reference picture missing during reorder
[h264 @ 0x7f31ac225b80] Missing reference picture, default is 34
2023-04-26 15:34:41 5236dbe61402 FrigateCam[1] INFO Spawning ffmpeg for video3 (eTJ2aDVITXC12VYi): ffmpeg -nostdin -loglevel error -y -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -fflags +genpts+discardcorrupt -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1 -timeout 15000000 -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://10.20.0.20:8554/entrance"  -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel_output_format yuv420p -metadata streamName=eTJ2aDVITXC12VYi -f flv - | /usr/local/bin/python -m unifi.clock_sync --write-timestamps | nc 10.20.0.1 7550
2023-04-26 15:34:41 5236dbe61402 FrigateCam[1] INFO Processing [ubnt_avclient_paramAgreement] message
Option hwaccel (use HW accelerated decoding) cannot be applied to output url - -- you are trying to apply an input option to an output file or vice versa. Move this option before the file it belongs to.
Error parsing options for output file -.
Error opening output files: Invalid argument

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[kloknibor]

The reason is because the ffmpeg arguments are added at the end of line and thus the output. I created a docker container with hardcoded VAAPI support for testing and currently experimenting with that. Feel free to try it : https://hub.docker.com/r/knibor/unifi-cam-proxy no errors but I don't feel like it's helping that much so probably something is wrong

[wladkolc]

hi @kloknibor can you share docker files with us?

[cefoster0]

same errors as above

[wladkolc]

my config runs without error too, but when i run intel_gpu_top i see only frigate acceleration, no ffmpeg from unifi-cam-proxy. I have tried to publish /dev/dri/renderD128 with compose file and run as privileged but without success.

[kloknibor]

hi @kloknibor can you share docker files with us?

See: https://github.com/kloknibor/unifi-cam-proxy

[kloknibor]

I am having issues with the NUC intel drivers. Can't get them to work on alpine it seems :-(

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[mastercko]

Commenting on this bug to reopen because it is still an issue.