[Support]: Hardware acceleration in I5 8269U

Describe the problem you are having

Can anyone tell me how I know if hardware accelerator is working?. I have an i5 8269U (8th generation) and I wrote this configuration for QuickSync:

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args:
    - -hwaccel
    - vaapi
    - -hwaccel_device
    - /dev/dri/renderD128
    - -hwaccel_output_format
    - yuv420p

It didn’t work. Camera was green.

Then I put this one:

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args:
    - -hwaccel
    - qsv
    - -qsv_device
    - /dev/dri/renderD128

And it worked, but neither my processor is 10th generation nor my log shows anything related to hardware acceleration.

about my config:

cameras:
  test_camera:
    ffmpeg:
      hwaccel_args:
        - -hwaccel
        - qsv
        - -qsv_device
        - /dev/dri/renderD128
      inputs:
        - path: <RTSP_STREAM_PATH>
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    detect:
      width: 1920
      height: 1080
      fps: 5 

As you see is quite simple, due to I’m testing frigate.

Thanks in advance.

Version

0.9.1-800F33E

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  host: 192.168.1.100
  user: user
  password: password
 
cameras:
  # Required: name of the camera
  videoportero:
    # Required: ffmpeg settings for the camera
    ffmpeg:
      hwaccel_args:
        - -hwaccel
        - qsv
        - -qsv_device
        - /dev/dri/renderD128
      # Required: A list of input streams for the camera. See documentation for more information.
      inputs:
        # Required: the path to the stream
        # NOTE: Environment variables that begin with 'FRIGATE_' may be referenced in {}
        - path: rtsp://user:password@192.168.1.101:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0
          # Required: list of roles for this stream. valid values are: detect,record,clips,rtmp
          # NOTICE: In addition to assigning the record, clips, and rtmp roles,
          # they must also be enabled in the camera config.
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    detect:
      width: 1920
      # Required: height of the frame for the input with the detect role
      height: 1080
      # Optional: desired fps for your camera for the input with the detect role
      # NOTE: Recommended value of 5. Ideally, try and reduce your FPS on the camera.
      #       Frigate will attempt to autodetect if not specified.
      fps: 5 
      # Optional: RTMP re-stream configuration

Relevant log output

no relevant log

FFprobe output from your camera

root@69568b3b9cdb:/opt/frigate# ffprobe version 4.3.1 Copyright (c) 2007-2020 th                                          e FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
  configuration: --disable-debug --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --enable-shared                                           --enable-avresample --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enab                                          le-gpl --enable-libfreetype --enable-libvidstab --enable-libmfx --enable-libmp3l                                          ame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --ena                                          ble-libwebp --enable-libxcb --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 -                                          -enable-nonfree --enable-openssl --enable-libfdk_aac --enable-postproc --enable-                                          small --enable-version3 --enable-libzmq --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg -                                          -enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libkvazaar --enable-libaom --extra-libs=-lpthread -                                          -enable-vaapi --extra-cflags=-I/opt/ffmpeg/include --extra-ldflags=-L/opt/ffmpeg                                          /lib
  libavutil      56. 51.100 / 56. 51.100
  libavcodec     58. 91.100 / 58. 91.100
  libavformat    58. 45.100 / 58. 45.100
  libavdevice    58. 10.100 / 58. 10.100
  libavfilter     7. 85.100 /  7. 85.100
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  7.100 /  5.  7.100
  libswresample   3.  7.100 /  3.  7.100
  libpostproc    55.  7.100 / 55.  7.100
[rtsp @ 0x55ae8b7bbb80] method DESCRIBE failed: 404 Not Found

Frigate stats

{"detection_fps":3.1,"detectors":{"cpu":{"detection_start":1634059322.689492,"inference_speed":324.45,"pid":213}},"service":{"storage":{"/dev/shm":{"free":54.1,"mount_type":"tmpfs","total":67.1,"used":13.0},"/media/frigate/clips":{"free":13068.6,"mount_type":"ext4","total":21003.6,"used":6844.5},"/media/frigate/recordings":{"free":13068.6,"mount_type":"ext4","total":21003.6,"used":6844.5},"/tmp/cache":{"free":1000.0,"mount_type":"tmpfs","total":1000.0,"used":0.0}},"uptime":56450,"version":"0.9.1-800f33e"},"videoportero":{"camera_fps":5.0,"capture_pid":218,"detection_fps":3.1,"pid":217,"process_fps":3.1,"skipped_fps":0.0}}

Operating system

Other Linux

Install method

Docker Compose

Coral version

CPU (no coral)

Network connection

Wired

Camera make and model

Dahua Villar door station (DHI-VTO2202F-P)

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[shoko-miyamori]

If it helps anyone, I was looking at this issue https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/581 and tried running the ffmpeg test command. It worked and I saw activity in intel_gpu_top. So I added the following to each camera:

hwaccel_args
  - -c:v
  - h264_qsv

Now I’m seeing activity in intel_gpu_top

Here’s my full config.

database:
  path: /db/frigate.db
mqtt:
  host: 192.168.0.100
  user: frigate
  password: {MQTT_PASSWORD}
detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb
birdseye:
  mode: continuous
ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args:
    - -hwaccel
    - qsv
    - -qsv_device
    - /dev/dri/renderD128
record:
  enabled: True
  retain_days: 60
cameras:
  garage_camera:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://frigate:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@192.168.0.173/live0
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
      hwaccel_args:
        - -c:v
        - h264_qsv
    detect:
      width: 1920
      height: 1080
  front_porch_camera:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://frigate:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@192.168.0.125/live0
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
      hwaccel_args:
        - -c:v
        - h264_qsv    
    detect:
      width: 1920
      height: 1080

This reduced my CPU usage by 50%.

This was very briefly mentioned in the docs here https://docs.frigate.video/guides/getting_started#step-5-configure-hardware-acceleration-optional but may need to be called out specifically?

[Minglarn]

Yes it still works… Think that you have some other issues… chekc your output_args… This is how mine looks like:

  output_args:
    detect: -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter:v fps=fps=5
    record: -f segment -segment_time 10 -segment_format mp4 -reset_timestamps 1 -strftime 1 -c:a copy -c:v copy

intel_gpu_top is easylly installed with apt install intel_gpu_top