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Old 15th May 2012, 19:15   #1  |  Link
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x264 OpenCL

Now before you guys groan and say "Oh not another noob asking for a GPU accelerated OpenCL", take a look at this article first:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5835/t...ds-trinity-apu

Yes there actually is an implementation of x264 with the lookahead function offloaded to the GPU. And the speed difference is quite impressive actually. Now the question is where can we download it
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Old 15th May 2012, 19:22   #2  |  Link
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x264's dev IRC has been testing OpenCL lookahead for months. You can join the IRC, request for the patch, compile a binary, and test or use on your own risk.
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Old 15th May 2012, 22:00   #3  |  Link
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It's buggy and nowhere near ready for serious usage, but you can test it if you want; ask muggs on IRC.

Buggy drivers aren't helping either.
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Old 15th May 2012, 23:30   #4  |  Link
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The open source community thus far hasn't been very interested in supporting Intel's proprietary technologies. As a result, Quick Sync remains unused by the applications we want to use for video transcoding.
I thought there were issues with getting useful APIs from Intel... correct me if I'm wrong.
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Intel provides a very minimal high-level encoding API missing all but the most basic features for video encoding. The low-level API is completely undocumented and barely half existent, and they haven't shown any real interest in exposing it in any real way.

Naturally, it's unsurprising that people aren't interested in something that Intel themselves doesn't seem to care about.
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It's buggy and nowhere near ready for serious usage, but you can test it if you want; ask muggs on IRC.

Buggy drivers aren't helping either.
Thanks for the kind reply. I'm assuming that there are some technical competence requirements to be a tester? Seeing as this is beta...
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Thanks for the kind reply. I'm assuming that there are some technical competence requirements to be a tester? Seeing as this is beta...
well beta means that is buggy, and people should send in logs/systeminfo and samples of files that fail to encode



nice to see x264 getting opencl support, keep up the awesome work Dark Shikari & you other awesome devs

and it might be useful to make this the offical x264 opencl thread, so people dont post yet more threads about the same subject
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unfortunately catalyst driver on linux does not support latest xorg 1.12

many people will be unable to test.
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So is this largely thanks to AMD finding uses for their superior iGPU compared to Intel?

What kind of speedup is expected? I know it depends on CPU/GPU, but I'm fine with an "up to" =).
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So is this largely thanks to AMD finding uses for their superior iGPU compared to Intel?

What kind of speedup is expected? I know it depends on CPU/GPU, but I'm fine with an "up to" =).
check anandtech arcticke
6.98 without OpenCL > 15.01 with OpenCL
and thats on midrange radeon 6000 series class chip, i wonder how it is on a HD 7970 or even HD 7990 when that comes
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Haha, forgot they actually tested it =).
But it's still not finished. Is it speed-optimized and just needs some bugs fixed, or will it get even faster?
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check anandtech arcticke
6.98 without OpenCL > 15.01 with OpenCL
and thats on midrange radeon 6000 series class chip, i wonder how it is on a HD 7970 or even HD 7990 when that comes
Actually I won't be surprised if a discrete card ends up being slower. Remember that the Radeon on Trinity is on the same die. I'm not sure how much sending data over PCI-E and back will affect the speed.

Developers please correct me if I'm saying something stupid.
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Is this currently working (as well as an alpha can work, of course) on NVidia as well as AMD? I know NVidia as implemented OpenCL, but I'm not sure if there implementation is as complete as AMD's.
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Is this currently working (as well as an alpha can work, of course) on NVidia as well as AMD? I know NVidia as implemented OpenCL, but I'm not sure if there implementation is as complete as AMD's.
When I tested the patch the last time, it compiled and worked on my 9600M GS just fine.

Also, the patch is available for public testing by the developer over at Doom10.
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I assume that it requires OpenCL 1.1 GPU at least?
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I assume that it requires OpenCL 1.1 GPU at least?
GPU-Z shows my GPU as "Supported profile: OpenCL 1.0" and, unless a lot has changed since I last tested it, it should work just fine
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Could you share your build, JEEB?
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Could you share your build, JEEB?
Seconded. I tried to patch and compile it myself but I have no idea what to do when it asked for the file to patch
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Oh yes, that would really be very interesting, even though it's still "alpha".
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Could you share your build, JEEB?
I second this, even if its an alpha build, I'd be willing to play with it.
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