commit: 67ec3db032a4a6b10c693d6d02cb6c4f3a49fa7b
parent 9e9d0bb29bd23618ebd3a89b8446e363ccece82c
Author: Pranjal Kole <pranjal.kole7@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:39:36 +0530
RISC-V: correct HVEC to HEVC
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2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/content/blog/2022-01-15-The-RISC-V-experience.gmi b/content/blog/2022-01-15-The-RISC-V-experience.gmi
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ I have enclosed the system in a mini-ITX case and set it down on top of my usual
Complicating things is the fact that my ordinary workstation uses two 4K displays. For example, my terminal emulator of choice is foot, but it uses CPU rendering and the 4K window is noticeably sluggish. Alacritty, which renders on the GPU, would probably fare better — but Rust spoils this again. I settled for st, which has acceptable performance (perhaps in no small part thanks to being upscaled from 1080p on this setup). visurf also renders on the CPU and is annoyingly slow; as a workaround I have taken to resizing the window to be much smaller while actively navigating and then scaling it back up to full size to read the final page.
-CPU-bound programs can be a struggle. However, this system has a consumer workstation GPU plugged into its PCIe slot. Any time I can get the GPU to pick up the slack, it works surprisingly effectively. For example, I watched Dune (2021) today in 4K on this machine — buttery smooth, stunningly beautiful 4K playback — a feat that my Pinebook Pro couldn’t dream of. The GPU has a hardware HVEC decoder, and mpv and Sway can use dmabufs such that the GPU decodes and displays each frame without it ever having to touch the CPU, and meanwhile the NVMe is fast enough to feed it data at a suitable bandwidth. A carefully configured obs-studio is also able to record my 4K display at 30 FPS and encode it on the GPU with VAAPI with no lag, something that I can’t even do on-CPU on x86_64 very reliably. The board does not provide onboard audio, but being an audiophile I have a USB DAC available that works just fine.
+CPU-bound programs can be a struggle. However, this system has a consumer workstation GPU plugged into its PCIe slot. Any time I can get the GPU to pick up the slack, it works surprisingly effectively. For example, I watched Dune (2021) today in 4K on this machine — buttery smooth, stunningly beautiful 4K playback — a feat that my Pinebook Pro couldn’t dream of. The GPU has a hardware HEVC decoder, and mpv and Sway can use dmabufs such that the GPU decodes and displays each frame without it ever having to touch the CPU, and meanwhile the NVMe is fast enough to feed it data at a suitable bandwidth. A carefully configured obs-studio is also able to record my 4K display at 30 FPS and encode it on the GPU with VAAPI with no lag, something that I can’t even do on-CPU on x86_64 very reliably. The board does not provide onboard audio, but being an audiophile I have a USB DAC available that works just fine.
I was able to play Armagetron Advanced at 120+ FPS in 4K, but that’s not exactly a demanding game. I also played SuperTuxKart, a more demanding game, at 1080p with all of the settings maxed out at a stable 30 FPS. I cannot test any commercial games, since I’m reasonably certain that there are no proprietary games that distribute a riscv64 build for Linux. If Ethan Lee is reading this, please get in touch so that we can work together on testing out a Celeste build.
diff --git a/content/blog/2022-01-15-The-RISC-V-experience.md b/content/blog/2022-01-15-The-RISC-V-experience.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ workstation GPU plugged into its PCIe slot. Any time I can get the GPU to pick
up the slack, it works surprisingly effectively. For example, I watched Dune
(2021) today in 4K on this machine — buttery smooth, stunningly beautiful
4K playback — a feat that my Pinebook Pro couldn't dream of. The GPU has a
-hardware HVEC decoder, and mpv and Sway can use dmabufs such that the GPU
+hardware HEVC decoder, and mpv and Sway can use dmabufs such that the GPU
decodes and displays each frame without it ever having to touch the CPU, and
meanwhile the NVMe is fast enough to feed it data at a suitable bandwidth. A
carefully configured obs-studio is also able to record my 4K display at 30 FPS
