Nouveau - May 2018 - libva problem?

On 2018-05-01 06:00 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> What GPU do you have? For video acceleration (i.e. va-api and vdpau),
> did you install the necessary firmware?
> 
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:53 PM, James <bjlockie at lockie.ca> wrote:
>> I am playing videos from my lubuntu computer to my tv through the hdmi
>> interface on my video card.
>> It mostly works.
>> Some sound doesn't and I think it is related to the audio code.
>> A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52) works.
>> It seems MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a) doesn't work.
>> I checked a video that used to work and it doesn't work now.
>> It has the mp4a codec also.
>>
>> The one that used to work shows this in Tools/Messages:
>> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 7
>>
>> The new one that doesn't work shows this in Tools/Messages:
>> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 8
>>
>> I think it might be related to the noveau video driver:
>> $ vainfo
>> libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
>> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
>> libva info: Trying to open
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
>> libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
>> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
I didn't need firmware before but it looks like I do now.
I will look into that.

$ dmesg | grep nouveau
[    1.600146] fb: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA
[    1.600264] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GK107 (0e7060a2)
[    1.714219] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 80.07.35.00.4f
[    1.715404] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 1024 MiB GDDR5
[    3.016349] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 1024 MiB
[    3.016350] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[    3.016353] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
[    3.016354] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
[    3.016356] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000f02 00020030
[    3.016357] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02000f00 00000000
[    3.016359] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 08011f82 00020030
[    3.016360] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 03: 02022f62 00020010
[    3.016361] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00001030
[    3.016362] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00002131
[    3.016363] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 02: 00010263
[    3.075212] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies
[    3.267847] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: allocated 1920x1200 fb:
0x60000, bo ffff93f0511da000
[    3.309740] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[    3.309825] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[    3.392584] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0
on minor 0
[ 2332.047386] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084 failed with error -2
[ 2332.047394] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084d failed with error -2
[ 2332.047396] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[ 2332.047400] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19
[ 4952.580211] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084 failed with error -2
[ 4952.580223] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084d failed with error -2
[ 4952.580227] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[ 4952.580232] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19
[ 5207.079263] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084 failed with error -2
[ 5207.079278] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084d failed with error -2
[ 5207.079282] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[ 5207.079290] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19
[ 5625.425868] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084 failed with error -2
[ 5625.425876] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084d failed with error -2
[ 5625.425877] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[ 5625.425881] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19
[ 5838.507113] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084 failed with error -2
[ 5838.507119] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nve7_fuc084d failed with error -2
[ 5838.507121] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[ 5838.507124] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:16 PM, James <bjlockie at lockie.ca>
wrote:
> On 2018-05-01 06:00 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:53 PM, James <bjlockie at lockie.ca>
wrote:
>>> I am playing videos from my lubuntu computer to my tv through the
hdmi
>>> interface on my video card.
>>> It mostly works.
>>> Some sound doesn't and I think it is related to the audio code.
>>> A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52) works.
>>> It seems MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a) doesn't work.
>>> I checked a video that used to work and it doesn't work now.
>>> It has the mp4a codec also.
>>>
>>> The one that used to work shows this in Tools/Messages:
>>> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 7
>>>
>>> The new one that doesn't work shows this in Tools/Messages:
>>> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 8
>>>
>>> I think it might be related to the noveau video driver:
>>> $ vainfo
>>> libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
>>> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
>>> libva info: Trying to open
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
>>> libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
>>> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
>>
>> What GPU do you have? For video acceleration (i.e. va-api and vdpau),
>> did you install the necessary firmware?
>>
>
> I didn't need firmware before but it looks like I do now.
> I will look into that.
Well, you don't need it to play back video. You only need it for
GPU-accelerated video decoding (which is what you get when using
va-api or vdpau). See
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ for the
details.

  -ilia

It turned out to be a simple fix.

I set the "Dolby Surround" option in vlc to on instead of auto.

Thanks for you help.


On 2018-05-01 06:19 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:16 PM, James <bjlockie at lockie.ca> wrote:
>> On 2018-05-01 06:00 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:53 PM, James <bjlockie at lockie.ca>
wrote:
>>>> I am playing videos from my lubuntu computer to my tv through
the hdmi
>>>> interface on my video card.
>>>> It mostly works.
>>>> Some sound doesn't and I think it is related to the audio
code.
>>>> A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52) works.
>>>> It seems MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a) doesn't work.
>>>> I checked a video that used to work and it doesn't work
now.
>>>> It has the mp4a codec also.
>>>>
>>>> The one that used to work shows this in Tools/Messages:
>>>> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 7
>>>>
>>>> The new one that doesn't work shows this in Tools/Messages:
>>>> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 8
>>>>
>>>> I think it might be related to the noveau video driver:
>>>> $ vainfo
>>>> libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
>>>> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
>>>> libva info: Trying to open
>>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
>>>> libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
>>>> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva
error),exit
>>> What GPU do you have? For video acceleration (i.e. va-api and
vdpau),
>>> did you install the necessary firmware?
>>>
>> I didn't need firmware before but it looks like I do now.
>> I will look into that.
> Well, you don't need it to play back video. You only need it for
> GPU-accelerated video decoding (which is what you get when using
> va-api or vdpau). See
> https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ for the
> details.
>
>   -ilia