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Watch this space - news from A-EON soon on this matter. A-EON has been enabling software projects to take advantage of the AmigaONE X1000 power in this area.

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I will be watching .
The Boingball Composite3D demo is amazing and performs better than when we used it in beta testing of the Radeon HD driver.The Radeon HD driver and OS4.1 components have improved a great deal since then .


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Sounds promising.

I hope that once the Gallium framework is fully in place that somebody will start work on UVD2 support. If that were supported then in theory even a Sam440 with an HD4350 or anything newer should be capable of full 1080p.

@Spectre660


Linking to another video playback thread.

http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?start=0&topic_id=6441&viewmode=&order=ASC&type=&mode=0

hope if this gets any traction they remember to use the information below .
Especially on the bandwidth info required for video playback .

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=760904&postcount=74


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By Hans: Opinions / Info - AmigaOS 4.x Systems Quote: Originally Posted by Boot_WB View Post Easy to implement for eg mplayer? Why has no-one done this..? IMHO, yes, it should be pretty easy. I have no idea why no-one has done this yet. Maybe everyone has been busy with other projects... Quote: Originally Posted by Boot_WB View Post Apologies, I must have misunderstood Karlos, or plans have changed (http://www.amiga.org/forums/archive/...p/t-61993.html) Karlos wrote: Quote: Right now, as far as I know no specific implementation exists for the RadeonHD drivers. With adequate 3D support, however, implementing a hardware video surface via video texturing becomes feasible. Since both 3D and video playback are desirable features, it makes sense to focus on the overlap. What would be the best approach to improving video playback in your experience Hans? (Who do OS4.x users nag at to get this done... ) Well, once OpenGL with shader support is available, then application developers could easily write their own GPU assisted YUV=>RGB conversion code. So, he's correct in that. However, that doesn't mean that 3D is the only way, nor would the appearance of 3D drivers magically improve anything. Don't nag anyone; we're aware of the situation and the various options to fix it. Quote: Originally Posted by Boot_WB View Post I was trying to be fair but frank. "Pretty good" doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement. Can DVDs be watched on Sam460 with no frame dropping? Does resizing/fullscreening impact upon playback? Can you watch video windowsed/scaled whilst doing other stuff (eg web browsing)? What percent cpu is used by stuff that could/should be offloaded to overlay/textured-video?* Yes, I can watch a DVD on the Sam460 without frame skipping. At least, I didn't notice any skipping last time I tried. No video scaling for now. However, that's not due to driver limitations. I can't remember what the CPU usage was. Overlay/textured-video handles the YUV=>RGB conversion and scaling. That alone helps quite a bit, but its still no match for a hardware decoder. BTW, the DVD drive can also have a big effect on DVD playback. There are a lot of poor quality drives out there, or drives that really need a firmware update. My A1-XE G4 stopped being able to play DVDs smoothly after "upgrading" to a new DVD drive. So, if someone else with a Sam460 can't play DVDs smoothly, then their DVD drive would be the prime suspect. Quote: From the same thread (PCI>PCIe adapter notwithstanding, how much bandwidth does 480p video need anyway...), albeit an extreme case: For 704x480 @24fps, you need: - 30.9 MiB/s when using 32-bit RGBA - 11.6 MiB/s for the YUV420p pixel format (a possibility with overlay/textured-video) Based on this GfxBench2D result, a Sam440ep-flex with Radeon HD 6670 can manage: - 13.52 MiB/s with a CPU-based copy routine - 90.23 MiB/s if DMA is used via WritePixelArray()/BlitBitMap() AFAIK, MPlayer and DvPlayer use their own CPU-based copy routine, so the copy bandwidth is killing any chance of smooth playback (NOTE: the CPU needs time to decode the video too). Needless to say, I encourage developers to use WritePixelArray()/BlitBitMap() for transfers to/from VRAM. By contrast, here are the bandwidth results for the Radeon M9 in a Sam440ep (link): - 53.45 MiB/s CPU copy - 90.98 MiB/s WritePixelArray Clearly the bandwidth is enough for 480p video, especially if overlay is used. Hans __________________ http://hdrlab.org.nz/ - Amiga OS 4 projects, programming articles and more. Home of the RadeonHD driver for Amiga OS 4.x project

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Demo of what composting can do using DVplayer and ZDR zoom utility on a Sam440ep-flex and Radeon HD5670

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5429075/Radeon_HD_Composite_Zooming.wmv

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Nice

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Shows the potential of the Radeon HD Driver .

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@Spectre660

The zooming in and out is buttery smooth! Nice. :)

@Spectre660

If you've downloaded the latest version you can hide the lens pointer by clicking space.

Thanks for promoting ZDR with your video.

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Yeah, I'm very curious too. I hope LiveForIt can build a non-altivec version soon...
Please compare video playbeck on (SAM440) R9250 with overlay and radeonHD with composition as soon as possible

Maybe my old 440 will get a pci to pcie adapter and radeonHD driver?

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Please compare video playbeck on (SAM440) R9250 with overlay and radeonHD with composition as soon as possible

You better of whit Overlay on R9250, the slower PCI slot will not able to keep up whit 32BIT data, when using composition.

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I'd like to use 66 MHz slot. Isn't it enough?


http://hdrlab.org.nz/projects/amiga-os-4-projects/radeonhd-driver/radeonhd-development-log/radeon-hd-6450-vs-radeon-9250-the-compositing-showdown/

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The Sam440ep-Flex 66mhz slot is ok.
THe Sam440ep-itx slot is only 33mhz and DMA is not supported at present.

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@mr2

It depends but lets look at the numbers.

Overlay: 640x480x2 = 614 400 bytes / per frame
Cgx_wpa (RGB): 640x480x3 = 921 600 bytes / per frame
Composition (ARGB): 640x480x4 = 1 228 800 bytes / per frame.

Overlay: 768x576x2 = 884736 bytes / per frame
Cgx_wpa (RGB): 768x576x3 = 1 327 104 bytes / per frame
Composition (ARGB): 768x480x4 = 1 474 560 bytes / per frame.

Overlay: 800x600x2 = 960 000 bytes / per frame
Cgx_wpa (RGB): 800x600x3 = 1 440 000 bytes / per frame
Composition (ARGB): 800x600x4 = 1 920 000 bytes / per frame.

50 frames per second.

The max bus speed on PCI 33Mhz is 133MB/s
The max bus speed on PCI 66Mhz is 266MB/s

The numbers looks like I'm wrong, only this is maybe not true, because I think I'm not operating at max bus speed, I'm now writing etch pixel into the video bitmap, so I'm wasting bandwidth maybe, that's interesting. I'm not using DMA transfer.

Anyway Kas1e did some tests and his results showed there where some kind of impact on the speed by using ARGB (32bit) on Pegasus II, instead of RGB (24bit).
Well maybe it might be combination of things, who knows.

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Jumping in on the Mplayer benchmarking.

http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?post_id=89255#forumpost89255

(not the same video as he uses )
SDl driver is twice as fast as tthe GGX_WPA on a Sam440ep-flex with Radeon HD.


Sam440ep-flex Radeon HD 5670.

MUI-Player Beta6


MUI-Player NON AltiVec SDL :

BENCHMARKs: VC: 56.357s VO: 62.831s A: 0.000s Sys: 1.059s = 120.246s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 46.8678% VO: 52.2516% A: 0.0000% Sys: 0.8806% = 100.0000%

MUI-Mplayer Non Altivec *Beta6* CGX_WPA :

BENCHMARKs: VC: 82.547s VO: 164.934s A: 0.000s Sys: 1.377s = 248.858s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 33.1702% VO: 66.2763% A: 0.0000% Sys: 0.5535% = 100.0000%
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Original MUI-Mplayer CGX_WPA :

BENCHMARKs: VC: 74.107s VO: 166.858s A: 0.000s Sys: 1.189s = 242.154s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 30.6034% VO: 68.9057% A: 0.0000% Sys: 0.4909% = 100.0000%

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Single pixel writes will incur a lot of overhead on PCI, you'll need to do bursts or DMA to get close to theoretical bandwidth limits.

Remember that on PCI you're sending address as well as data, more or less exactly like Z3.

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Sam440ep-flex pci to pci adapter
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 13.56
Write Pixel Array 90.37
Copy from VRAM 21.40
Read Pixel Array 27.35

Sam440ep-flex regular pci
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 57.92
Write Pixel Array 90.18
Copy from VRAM 35.34
Read Pixel Array 36.05

Sam440ep-itx onboard graphics
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 40.57
Write Pixel Array 78.28
Copy from VRAM 33.54
Read Pixel Array 31.18

Sam440ep-itx pci to pcie adapter
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 11.22
Write Pixel Array 11.21
Copy from VRAM 10.32
Read Pixel Array 10.37

Sam460ex
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 303.38
Write Pixel Array 668.93
Copy from VRAM 58.20
Read Pixel Array 110.99

X1000
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 437.52
Write Pixel Array 400.71
Copy from VRAM 40.32
Read Pixel Array 41.35

A1
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 94.75
Write Pixel Array 113.03
Copy from VRAM 28.45
Read Pixel Array 18.60

A1 pci to pcie adapter
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 17.91
Write Pixel Array 50.65
Copy from VRAM 1.74
Read Pixel Array 1.17

A1-Micro onboard graphics
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 83.81
Write Pixel Array 58.84
Copy from VRAM 13.52
Read Pixel Array 12.60

PEG II
Operation MiB/s
Copy to VRAM 222.33
Write Pixel Array 173.72
Copy from VRAM 51.61
Read Pixel Array 42.03

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So the X1000, A1-Micro and Peg II currently have faster bus transfers
without the Write Pixel array function.
The Sam460ex,Sam440ep's and A1 have faster bus transfers with DMA and the Write pixel array function .

EDIT:

I have been corrected by Hans about the A1-X1000 results.
The copy to VRAM and Write pixel array functions are actually currently the same speed.Due the different locking mechanisms used by each method and the fact that the test runs multiple copy operations ,the Write pixel array copy results appear slower.
By using the Write pixel array now there is no actual disadvantage and software will benefit when DMA support is enabled for the A1-X1000.

Will be interesting to see the speed up.

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Sam4440ep-flex Radeon HD5670

Composite speeds up playback 16.23% over sdl on benchmark test and 206.962% over CGX-WPA using a 640x360 AVI video .

liveforit-mplayer/mplayer-no-altivec
BENCHMARKs: VC: 70.403s VO: 27.911s A: 0.000s Sys: 2.411s = 100.725s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 69.8966% VO: 27.7098% A: 0.0000% Sys: 2.3937% = 100.0000%

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Spectre660 wrote: Jumping in on the Mplayer benchmarking. http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?post_id=89255#forumpost89255 (not the same video as he uses ) SDl driver is twice as fast as tthe GGX_WPA on a Sam440ep-flex with Radeon HD. Sam440ep-flex Radeon HD 5670. MUI-Player Beta6 MUI-Player NON AltiVec SDL : BENCHMARKs: VC: 56.357s VO: 62.831s A: 0.000s Sys: 1.059s = 120.246s BENCHMARK%: VC: 46.8678% VO: 52.2516% A: 0.0000% Sys: 0.8806% = 100.0000% MUI-Mplayer Non Altivec *Beta6* CGX_WPA : BENCHMARKs: VC: 82.547s VO: 164.934s A: 0.000s Sys: 1.377s = 248.858s BENCHMARK%: VC: 33.1702% VO: 66.2763% A: 0.0000% Sys: 0.5535% = 100.0000% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original MUI-Mplayer CGX_WPA : BENCHMARKs: VC: 74.107s VO: 166.858s A: 0.000s Sys: 1.189s = 242.154s BENCHMARK%: VC: 30.6034% VO: 68.9057% A: 0.0000% Sys: 0.4909% = 100.0000%

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