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fix: radeonsi encodes H.264, holds its bitrate, and converts only the matrix - #13
moq-vaapi encodes correctly on AMD radeonsi now. Before this, an RX 9070 gave an H.264 stream nothing could decode, a rate controller that couldn't get under about 1.3 Mbps at 720p, and BT.601 conversions off by up to 10 code values. Three root causes, all on our side:
H.264 bytes. radeonsi (Mesa's VA frontend, radeon_vcn_enc_encode_headers) writes the packed SPS and PPS only when a packed slice header comes with them. It also takes the slice's nal_ref_idc and nal_unit_type from that packed header alone. We packed the parameter sets but not the slice, so the driver dropped both and wrote a slice whose NAL header byte was 0x00 (Invalid data found when processing input). The H.264 slice synthesizer vendored from cros-codecs was already here, but gated on a vaapi feature this crate doesn't have. It now compiles, and every picture carries a packed slice header when the driver takes VA_ENC_PACKED_HEADER_SLICE, as H.265 and ffmpeg already do. Its bit length is exact, since an H.264 slice header isn't byte-aligned. Consecutive IDRs alternate idr_pic_id, which 7.4.3 requires and which the driver now copies from our header.
Bitrate.MAX_QP = 36 set a smallest picture. iHD and radeonsi both honor it, so a target below that size overshot several times. On 720p testsrc2, both drivers sat at about 1.3 Mbps whatever they were asked for. The ceiling is now the codecs' 51, and MIN_QP = 18 stays.
Chroma "offset". This was a gamut conversion, not an offset. Mesa reads VAProcColorStandardBT601 as SMPTE 170M primaries and transfer as well as the matrix, so RGB to BT.601 moved red and green (BT.709 was exact). iHD changes only the matrix, and so does every other conversion in the stack. iHD can't take one shared form either: its explicit standard is keyed on colour_primaries and ignores matrix_coefficients (VpSetColorStandardExplictly). So the processor picks the form once at setup from the vendor string: Mesa gets explicit sides with equal BT.709 primaries and transfer, so only the matrix and range change, and everything else keeps the named standards.
Measurements
Rate (mean bytes per picture once settled, as a multiple of the target; 720p testsrc2 with light temporal noise):
500 kbps
2 Mbps
250 kbps
radeonsi H.264, cap 36 → 51
2.61x → 1.15x
1.00x → 1.01x
5.00x → 2.00x
radeonsi H.265, cap 36 → 51
2.01x → 0.98x
1.01x → 1.01x
3.95x → 1.03x
iHD H.264, cap 36 → 51
3.51x → 1.38x
0.87x → 0.82x
6.79x → 2.36x
iHD H.265, cap 36 → 51
2.47x → 1.02x
1.02x → 1.02x
4.82x → 0.98x
The H.264 remainder at 250 kbps is the codec at QP 51 on this content: ffmpeg's h264_vaapi floors at 0.59 Mbps (radeonsi) and 0.63 Mbps (iHD) on the same frames.
Cost: on iHD H.264 at 2 Mbps with a 60-picture GOP, IDRs drop from 36 to 31.5 to 33 dB luma PSNR and recover over about 10 pictures. iHD H.265 and radeonsi both codecs are unchanged.
Validation
nix develop --command just ci (clippy, fmt, bindings drift, unit tests, --features log/release_max_level_trace, cargo deny): pass.
cargo test --lib on AMD RX 9070 (radeonsi, Mesa 26.2.5): 42 passed. Before: 39 passed, 3 failed (both color conversions, the bitrate change), and H.264 output undecodable.
cargo test --lib on Intel Arrow Lake (iHD 26.3.5): 42 passed, before and after.
moq-video's VA-API tests with this crate patched in, on the RX 9070 (MOQ_VAAPI_DEVICE=/dev/dri/renderD129): 19 of 19 pass, including the ignored 1080p ladder. On 0.2.0: 7 fail.
a_bitrate_change_takes_effect_without_a_keyframe now codes a zone plate whose phase moves every picture (detail motion compensation can't predict) and asserts each settled rate is within a quarter above its target. With the old cap it fails on radeonsi (3788 bytes per picture against a 1041 target). The old per-picture noise kept radeonsi above both targets even for ffmpeg.
Not run: the host's Ubuntu Mesa 26.0.8, which the Nix libva can't load (it needs the host's libLLVM). The code paths cited above are the same in 26.2.5.
Choices made without asking
Open the QP ceiling to 51 rather than keep 36. Under congestion, a stream that can't back off costs more than iHD H.264's IDR dip. A size-dependent ceiling was the alternative; it would still miss low targets on detailed content.
Pick the VPP color form by vendor string (Mesa Gallium driver prefix), since both drivers list VAProcColorStandardExplicit in their pipeline caps and read it differently. This covers every Gallium VA driver, because the behavior lives in Mesa's VA frontend.
Review
Codex gpt-6.1-sol at medium effort via quest review, head 824d710ed8194818c4839a3fbeab65bc7ee3a6b2: 0 findings.
Round 1 (5a15d30), src/vpp.rs [P2]: on Mesa, an unnamed side next to a named one was forced to the RGB identity matrix, so a YUV surface would have been misread. Fixed: it now carries the unspecified matrix, which Mesa resolves the way it did before. 42/42 on both drivers.
Impact
Public API: none (the changed items are private or pub(crate)). Wire: none. A patch release is enough.
Follow-ups
moq-dev/moq picks this up with a moq-vaapi release and bump (quest).
A ceiling of 36 set a smallest picture that iHD and radeonsi both honored,
so a low target overshot several times over.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mesa reads the BT.601 standard as SMPTE 170M primaries too and gamut-maps,
so it gets each side explicitly with equal primaries. iHD reads an explicit
side by its primaries alone, so it keeps the named standards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The encoder now tracks IDR pictures and negotiates H.264 packed headers, including synthesized slice headers. H.264 and H.265 packed-header helpers accept explicit bit lengths. The maximum quantizer increases, and the bitrate test adds settled picture-size checks. The blit pipeline selects color properties based on the display vendor and passes prepared parameters to the blit operation. Hardware-validation comments and the codec-test report are updated.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 824d7
The change has bounded remaining concerns: unnamed RGB color settings can produce different pixels, and the documented bitrate accuracy exceeds the demonstrated results. Preserve the default color behavior and qualify the bitrate claim; otherwise the remaining merge risk is low.
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- fix: radeonsi encodes H.264, holds its bitrate, and converts only the matrix by kixelated · Pull Request #13 · moq-dev/vaapi · GitHub — GitHub pull request 13 in moq-dev/vaapi (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- GitHub - moq-dev/vaapi: Rust VAAPI bindings · GitHub — https://github.com/moq-dev/vaapi
- moq/Cargo.toml at main · moq-dev/moq · GitHub — https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/blob/main/Cargo.toml
- [vlc-commits] [Git][videolan/vlc][master] opengl: vaapi: check surfaces via the export path — https://www.mail-archive.com/vlc-commits%40videolan.org/msg71330.html
- quest/m2/video-vaapi.md · main · Paul Seehofer / MoQ With QUIC Migration · GitLab — https://gitlab.kit.edu/paul.seehofer/moq/-/blob/main/quest/m2/video-vaapi.md
- …and 17 more
Limit the bitrate claim to the tested content.
The test checks a moving zone plate, not arbitrary content. The PR reports that 720p noisy testsrc2 H.264 reaches 2.00× the 250 kbps target on radeonsi and 2.36× on iHD. Qualify the README claim so readers do not expect that accuracy for other content.
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to within a few code values. These run as tests, for both codecs, wherever
ffmpeg and a VA-API device are both present. Both codecs pass them on Intel
Arrow Lake (iHD 26.3.5) and AMD Radeon RX 9070 (radeonsi, Mesa 26.2.5),
- where the stream also holds within a quarter of its bitrate from 2 Mbps down- to 250 kbps.+ where the settled zone-plate test stays at most 25% above its target at+ both 2 Mbps and 250 kbps.
- **DMA-BUF import and video post-processing.** `dmabuf` wraps a DRM PRIME
buffer as a surface without copying it; `vpp` blits one surface into another
through `VAEntrypointVideoProc`, scaling, converting, and re-tiling on the
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Sources consulted:
- src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/mm/si_vpe.c - external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa - Git at Google — https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/%2B/6cafe0e2484e50ce6ad1de5ac5c9911b92831820/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/mm/si_vpe.c
- src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/radeon_vcn_enc.c - external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa - Git at Google — https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/%2B/c9a8dcd63ce2356d5c575f3c4149ba68bd5c8624/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/radeon_vcn_enc.c
- Mesa: src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_vpe.c | Fossies — https://fossies.org/linux/mesa/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_vpe.c
- Mesa: src/gallium/frontends/va/postproc.c | Fossies — https://fossies.org/linux/mesa/src/gallium/frontends/va/postproc.c
- …and 29 more
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Mesa 26.2.1 vlVaGetColorProperties default PIPE_VIDEO_VPP_PRI_UNSPECIFIED TRC_UNSPECIFIED default case
Mesa vpelib VPE_TF_G22 VPE_TF_G24 input output transfer function color conversion CSC bypass
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Sources consulted:
- src/amd/vpelib/src/chip/vpe20/vpe20_resource.c - external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa - Git at Google — https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/%2B/b874a6baf2e64261d6714dc95111d8d3ae72a0bb/src/amd/vpelib/src/chip/vpe20/vpe20_resource.c
- Mesa: src/amd/vpelib/inc/vpe_types.h | Fossies — https://fossies.org/linux/mesa/src/amd/vpelib/inc/vpe_types.h
- src/amd/vpelib/src/core/color.c - external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa - Git at Google — https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/%2B/e64b5b24dfef1741ee168ef7ed2a7a2c4158e82b/src/amd/vpelib/src/core/color.c
- src/amd/vpelib/inc/vpe_types.h - external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa - Git at Google — https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/%2B/c171124a3493bddfe1f73a303c7c475dc6a26513/src/amd/vpelib/inc/vpe_types.h
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Preserve the driver default for an unnamed color side.
When an RGB input has a named output, this code forces BT.709 transfer on the input. Mesa’s default is gamma 2.2, so radeonsi can produce different pixel values from the documented default. Preserve the unnamed side’s default.
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Summary
moq-vaapi encodes correctly on AMD radeonsi now. Before this, an RX 9070 gave an H.264 stream nothing could decode, a rate controller that couldn't get under about 1.3 Mbps at 720p, and BT.601 conversions off by up to 10 code values. Three root causes, all on our side:
radeon_vcn_enc_encode_headers) writes the packed SPS and PPS only when a packed slice header comes with them. It also takes the slice'snal_ref_idcandnal_unit_typefrom that packed header alone. We packed the parameter sets but not the slice, so the driver dropped both and wrote a slice whose NAL header byte was0x00(Invalid data found when processing input). The H.264 slice synthesizer vendored from cros-codecs was already here, but gated on avaapifeature this crate doesn't have. It now compiles, and every picture carries a packed slice header when the driver takesVA_ENC_PACKED_HEADER_SLICE, as H.265 and ffmpeg already do. Its bit length is exact, since an H.264 slice header isn't byte-aligned. Consecutive IDRs alternateidr_pic_id, which 7.4.3 requires and which the driver now copies from our header.MAX_QP = 36set a smallest picture. iHD and radeonsi both honor it, so a target below that size overshot several times. On 720ptestsrc2, both drivers sat at about 1.3 Mbps whatever they were asked for. The ceiling is now the codecs' 51, andMIN_QP = 18stays.VAProcColorStandardBT601as SMPTE 170M primaries and transfer as well as the matrix, so RGB to BT.601 moved red and green (BT.709 was exact). iHD changes only the matrix, and so does every other conversion in the stack. iHD can't take one shared form either: its explicit standard is keyed oncolour_primariesand ignoresmatrix_coefficients(VpSetColorStandardExplictly). So the processor picks the form once at setup from the vendor string: Mesa gets explicit sides with equal BT.709 primaries and transfer, so only the matrix and range change, and everything else keeps the named standards.Measurements
Rate (mean bytes per picture once settled, as a multiple of the target; 720p
testsrc2with light temporal noise):The H.264 remainder at 250 kbps is the codec at QP 51 on this content: ffmpeg's
h264_vaapifloors at 0.59 Mbps (radeonsi) and 0.63 Mbps (iHD) on the same frames.Cost: on iHD H.264 at 2 Mbps with a 60-picture GOP, IDRs drop from 36 to 31.5 to 33 dB luma PSNR and recover over about 10 pictures. iHD H.265 and radeonsi both codecs are unchanged.
Validation
nix develop --command just ci(clippy, fmt, bindings drift, unit tests,--features log/release_max_level_trace, cargo deny): pass.cargo test --libon AMD RX 9070 (radeonsi, Mesa 26.2.5): 42 passed. Before: 39 passed, 3 failed (both color conversions, the bitrate change), and H.264 output undecodable.cargo test --libon Intel Arrow Lake (iHD 26.3.5): 42 passed, before and after.MOQ_VAAPI_DEVICE=/dev/dri/renderD129): 19 of 19 pass, including the ignored 1080p ladder. On 0.2.0: 7 fail.a_bitrate_change_takes_effect_without_a_keyframenow codes a zone plate whose phase moves every picture (detail motion compensation can't predict) and asserts each settled rate is within a quarter above its target. With the old cap it fails on radeonsi (3788 bytes per picture against a 1041 target). The old per-picture noise kept radeonsi above both targets even for ffmpeg.Choices made without asking
Mesa Gallium driverprefix), since both drivers listVAProcColorStandardExplicitin their pipeline caps and read it differently. This covers every Gallium VA driver, because the behavior lives in Mesa's VA frontend.Review
Codex
gpt-6.1-solat medium effort viaquest review, head824d710ed8194818c4839a3fbeab65bc7ee3a6b2: 0 findings.5a15d30),src/vpp.rs[P2]: on Mesa, an unnamed side next to a named one was forced to the RGB identity matrix, so a YUV surface would have been misread. Fixed: it now carries the unspecified matrix, which Mesa resolves the way it did before. 42/42 on both drivers.Impact
Public API: none (the changed items are private or
pub(crate)). Wire: none. A patch release is enough.Follow-ups
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