What was your last RTFM adventure?
What was your last RTFM adventure? Tinker this, read that, make something smoother! Or explodier.
As for me, I wanted to see how many videos I could run at once. (Answer: 60 frames per second or 60 frames per second?)
With my sights on GPUizing some ethically sourced motion pictures, I RTFW, graphed, and slapped on environment variables and flags like Lego bricks. I got the Intel VAAPI thingamabob to jaunt by (and found that it butterized my mpv videos)
<span style="color:#323232;">$ pacman -S blahblahblahblahblahtfm
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ mpv --show-profile</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#323232;">fast
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Profile fast:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> scale</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">bilinear
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> dscale</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">bilinear
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> dither</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">no
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> correct-downscaling</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">no
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> linear-downscaling</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">no
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> sigmoid-upscaling</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">no
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> hdr-compute-peak</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">no
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> allow-delayed-peak-detect</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">yes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ mpv --hwdec</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#323232;">auto --profile</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#323232;">fast graphwar-god-4KEDIT.mp4
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># fucking silk
</span>
But there was no pleasure without pain: Mr. Maxwell F. N. 940MX (the N stands for Nvidia) played hooky. So I employed the longest envvars ever
<span style="color:#323232;">$ NVD_LOG=1 VDPAU_TRACE=2 VDPAU_NVIDIA_DEBUG=3 NVD_BACKEND=direct NVD_GPU=nvidia LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia prime-run vdpauinfo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">GPU at BusId 0x1 doesn</span><span style="color:#183691;">'t have a supported video decoder
</span><span style="color:#183691;">Error creating VDPAU device: 1
</span><span style="color:#183691;"># stfu
</span>
to try translating Nvidia VDPAU to VAAPI – of course, here I realized I rtfmed backwards and should’ve tried to use just VDPAU instead. So I did.
Juice was still not acquired.
Finally, after a voracious DuckDuckGoing (quacking?), I was then blessed with the freeing knowledge that even though post-Kepler is , Nvidia is full of lies…
<span style="color:#323232;"> ______
</span><span style="color:#323232;">< fudj >
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ------
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ‘^----^‘
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (◕(‘人‘)◕)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ( 8 ) ô
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ( 8 )_______( )
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ( 8 8 )
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (_________________)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> || ||
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (|| (||
</span>
and then right before posting this, gut feeling: I can’t read.
<span style="color:#323232;">$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
</span><span style="color:#323232;">... NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940MX] (rev a2)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># ArchWiki says that GM108 isn't supported.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Facepalm
</span>
SO. What was your last RTFM adventure?