Ffmpeg vaapi no effect 1.34.2

[multijohn]

Describe Your Environment
Ubuntu 16

• Version of ZoneMinder [release version, development version, or commit]
  1.34.2
• How you installed ZoneMinder [e.g. PPA, RPMFusion, from-source, etc]
  ppa
• Full name and version of OS
  Ubuntu server 16 ffmpeg 4
• Browser name and version (if this is an issue with the web interface)

If the issue concerns a camera

• Make and Model
• frame rate
• resolution
• ZoneMinder Source Type:
  9 Escam rtsp cameras 25 fps 720p
  Describe the bug
  A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
  With remote method i'm happy with the performance , but i'm reading that the remote method is not the correct way and i must use ffmpeg, so i tryed it!
  But the performance is getting worse hits 50 percent cpu! Ffmpeg supports vaapi on my system i7 processor!
  Vaapi settings inside monitors no have any effect
  To Reproduce
  Steps to reproduce the behavior:

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4. See error

Expected behavior
A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.
Reduce cpu and load to remote method levels or lower
Debug Logs

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[danlsgiga]

I believe I have the same problem. Configured ZM to use vaapi but don't see any improvement in performance. I'm running 1.35.1 via Unraid docker dlandon/zoneminder.master

[madhacker3kxl]

I have similar issue with v1.34.11 in Debian 10 Buster. It doesn't actually do any GPU decoding, used intel_gpu_top to verify. Tried manually in ffmpeg directly in cmdline and it decodes fine.

[connortechnology]

You have to turn on debugging and check the logs. It will likely tell you why.

I've noticed that on ubuntu2004, the /dev/dri/renderD129 ar enow owned by group render instead of video. So you need to put www-data into the render group as well.

[multijohn]

Here is the debugging,
is it looking for h264_mmal ?
I have set it for VAAPI
Thank u!

05/16/20 01:39:04.478440 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_logger.cpp/255 [LogOpts: level=DB1 effective=DB1, screen=OFF, database=DB9, logfile=DB1->/var/log/zm/zm_debug.log.13298, syslog=OFF] 05/16/20 01:39:04.492579 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_utils.cpp/282 [Detected a x86\x86-64 processor with AVX2] 05/16/20 01:39:04.499132 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/2116 [Got 1 for v4l_captures_per_frame] 05/16/20 01:39:04.506311 zmc_m1[13298].INF-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/82 [Enabling ffmpeg logs, as LOG_DEBUG+LOG_FFMPEG are enabled in options] 05/16/20 01:39:04.512508 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/423 [monitor purpose=1] 05/16/20 01:39:04.519420 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/437 [mem.size(8) SharedData=600 TriggerData=560 VideoStoreData=4128 timestamps=800 images=50x3686400 = 184320000 total=184326152] 05/16/20 01:39:04.525860 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_storage.cpp/84 [Loaded Storage area 1 'ZoneminderStorage'] 05/16/20 01:39:04.532743 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/441 [Storage path: /media/zoneminder/events] 05/16/20 01:39:04.543522 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/595 [Unable to map file /dev/shm/zm.mmap.1 (184326152 bytes) to locked memory, trying unlocked] 05/16/20 01:39:04.550324 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/598 [Mapped file /dev/shm/zm.mmap.1 (184326152 bytes) to unlocked memory] 05/16/20 01:39:04.639986 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/514 [Monitor Garden-Front has function 3, label format = '%N - %d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S', label X = 0, label Y = 0, label size = 1, image buffer count = 50, warmup count = 25, pre-event count = 25, post-event count = 100, alarm frame count = 1, fps report interval = 1000, ref blend percentage = 12, alarm ref blend percentage = 12, track motion = 0] 05/16/20 01:39:04.646926 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_zone.cpp/884 [Got 2 zones for monitor Garden-Front] 05/16/20 01:39:04.656554 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/2389 [Loaded monitor 1(Garden-Front), 2 zones] 05/16/20 01:39:04.662572 zmc_m1[13298].INF-zmc.cpp/223 [Starting Capture version 1.34.14] 05/16/20 01:39:04.669549 zmc_m1[13298].INF-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/202 [Priming capture from rtsp://192.168.2.80:554/user=user_password=pass_channel=1_stream=0.sdp] 05/16/20 01:39:04.675512 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/365 [Calling avformat_open_input for rtsp://192.168.2.80:554/user=user_password=pass_channel=1_stream=0.sdp] 05/16/20 01:39:04.929087 zmc_m1[13298].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:04.936653 zmc_m1[13298].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.127771 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/458 **[Failed to find decoder (h264_mmal)]** 05/16/20 01:39:06.136468 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/335 [Dumping stream index i(0) index(0)] 05/16/20 01:39:06.142932 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/345 [ Stream #0:0] 05/16/20 01:39:06.149718 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/356 [frames:28, frame_size:0 stream timebase: 1/90000] 05/16/20 01:39:06.156110 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/363 [codec: Video: h264 (Main), 1 reference frame, yuv420p(left), 1280x720, 1/44] 05/16/20 01:39:06.161988 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/286 [22 fps] 05/16/20 01:39:06.168101 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/288 [90k stream tb numerator] 05/16/20 01:39:06.173966 zmc_m1[13298].WAR-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/540 [HWAccel support not compiled in.] 05/16/20 01:39:06.186028 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/330 [Dumping codec_context codec_type(0) codec_id(28 h264) width(1280) height(720) timebase(1/44) format(unsupported on avconv) gop_size 12 max_b_frames 0 me_cmp 0 me_range 0 qmin 2 qmax 31] 05/16/20 01:39:06.191675 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/561 [HWACCEL not in use] 05/16/20 01:39:06.199253 zmc_m1[13303].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.206378 zmc_m1[13304].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.213348 zmc_m1[13305].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.220041 zmc_m1[13306].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.227254 zmc_m1[13307].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.234207 zmc_m1[13308].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.241197 zmc_m1[13309].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.248200 zmc_m1[13310].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.255378 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.263013 zmc_m1[13311].WAR-zm_ffmpeg.cpp/70 [Invalid UE golomb code] 05/16/20 01:39:06.276046 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/1122 [Setup conversion context for 1280x720 yuv420p to 1280x720 rgba] 05/16/20 01:39:06.294097 zmc_m1[13298].INF-zm_monitor.cpp/2544 [Garden-Front: images:1 - Capturing at 0.50 fps, capturing bandwidth 34521bytes/sec] 05/16/20 01:39:06.301485 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.318910 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.328588 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.336598 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.344983 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.352170 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.359965 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.367340 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.374509 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.381374 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.388290 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808] 05/16/20 01:39:06.395359 zmc_m1[13298].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/276 [raw frame from decoder: format 0 unsupported 1280x720 linesize:1280x640 pts: -9223372036854775808]

[Gransi]

I have the same behavior. There is no difference between vaapi and cpu only.

I'm using ubuntu 20.04 and zm 1.34.21.

zm_debug.log

[kabadisha]

I have been looking into this and found that dlandon's docker container uses Ubuntu 18.04 which does not have very up to date Intel graphics drivers and VAAPI support.

I have found a workaround, which you can find here:
#3063 (comment)

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