what does vainfo show? You may need to install it. You are looking
for something like below, I believe the main10 is what is needed for
your video.
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
You may need to then confirm that your given video card supports those decoders.
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 11:27 AM Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> > I have a fedora38 desktop and having a problem playing 4k videos.
>> > When
>> > playing some videos, my entire system becomes sluggish and slow to
>> > respond,
>> > like the system is under extreme load or all resources are consumed
>> > by
>> > graphics rendering.
>> >
>> > This is the lspci info for my video card:
>> > 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>> > [AMD/ATI]
>> > Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev ef)
>> >
>> > CPU utilization doesn't appear to be a problem, so really have no
>> > idea why
>> > this is happening. Perhaps a missing codec? How do I control hardware
>> > rendering?
>> >
>> > What other information can I provide to help troubleshoot this?
>>
>> At a minimum, what video software is this, and what codec does the
>> video use? For the latter, use (e.g.) mediainfo to find out.
>
>
> Here's the mediainfo output for one of the movies with a problem, but I'm also now seeing the same problem with the Linux zoom client where the entire computer becomes sluggish and unusable.
>
> https://pastebin.com/7rxunmYu
>
> This happens when playing through Kodi or vlc.
>
> > Did 4k the sluggish 4K videos play smoothly in the past?.
>
> Yes. This happened after a fc37 to fc38 upgrade some weeks ago. I've also installed all the latest updates since. Sorry I didn't mention this sooner, ugh.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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