soc-qcom-sdm845: discourage hw video (de)encoders in gstreamer (MR 6098)

Gstreamer enables hw de- and encoding by default for the most common APIs,
including V4L2-stateful. Unfortunately the venus driver is still quite
unstable, reliably crashing in very common scenarios, triggering apps
like Snapshot, Showtime or Tuba to show error messages or not working
properly - partly because of non-optimal error-handling.

Until the kernel driver situation improves, set environment variables
that demote the decoders to fallbacks in case nothing else is available,
and disable the hw-encoders completely as they tend to destabalise the
whole system if something goes wrong.

Useful command for env variables:
systemctl --user show-environment
This commit is contained in:
Robert Mader
2025-02-03 12:00:55 +01:00
committed by Caleb Connolly
parent 0eaba406fe
commit 6bc98ff414
3 changed files with 23 additions and 1 deletions
+21 -1
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
pkgname=soc-qcom-sdm845
pkgdesc="Common package for Qualcomm SDM845 devices"
pkgver=25
pkgrel=0
pkgrel=1
url="https://postmarketos.org"
license="BSD-3-Clause"
arch="aarch64"
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ depends="
"
replaces="upower"
subpackages="
$pkgname-gstreamer-openrc:gstreamer_openrc
$pkgname-gstreamer-systemd:gstreamer_systemd
$pkgname-modem
$pkgname-modem-openrc:modem_openrc
$pkgname-nonfree-firmware:nonfree_firmware
@@ -35,6 +37,8 @@ source="
call_audio_idle_suspend_workaround.confd
call_audio_idle_suspend_workaround.initd
call_audio_idle_suspend_workaround.sh
gstreamer.conf
gstreamer.sh
modemmanager.conf
"
@@ -54,6 +58,20 @@ package() {
-t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d
}
gstreamer_openrc() {
install_if="$pkgname=$pkgver-r$pkgrel openrc"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir"/gstreamer.sh \
"$subpkgdir"/etc/profile.d/50-soc-qcom-sdm845-gstreamer.sh
}
gstreamer_systemd() {
install_if="$pkgname=$pkgver-r$pkgrel systemd"
install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/gstreamer.conf \
"$subpkgdir"/etc/environment.d/50-soc-qcom-sdm845-gstreamer.conf
}
modem() {
pkgdesc="Modem services and configuration"
depends="
@@ -157,5 +175,7 @@ f6d03f3b03f944b29b588464e2e26f4f4cc185368714f9e623c1211174ea172efb81a765980c9a28
6fb4c0bd8b7ed534d855a6732ccff783960e3cfa0e0cc7effcbb93afa00798dec15361a37a3200081bc114c8d266b7a0851cc4e819ad36eabdb47a50c72620d9 call_audio_idle_suspend_workaround.confd
5a58475b6e2ee1d655f3f23d8dc19e1cb2f32f1dfff3b9a9337d9c5baad1ec24bfaec0fb9cc03f00e5a291bee27c6b8bffbc65157e2bee5d65ef6d1adcb0910b call_audio_idle_suspend_workaround.initd
6da0a9209f114354aa2aa1185ec3896a8e0bb1bfce0dc3fc4c0de339cf1389feaa2d724e733c251ff032a5e86d37d9549e94f8f7c7a5accfedbd8a4d6316bbfd call_audio_idle_suspend_workaround.sh
f86ebf68bb7e41b531e5cd8fc3e54d8fafad314fb80950277e41004303b3bf75b2ae96f0228bdf4ed67645aee8ceaf247140b4843c66365259d2908b8991b877 gstreamer.conf
471583b91bc35608cb75d0b3ceb88fa793a4e763ea228703c50ffb1b45c0e9054646c46f710164ec3ef65a882a204fd59546f3a0ebb94b8d6c6f08c4043bcfd3 gstreamer.sh
e33f41360ccc4900bb76a26cc7b46bde1fb90facdf45c4fbcebc80499386939948401cacd6df9f779eafab10f4ee77ee1fef3e7bd06f483f8c2a4a644c84f327 modemmanager.conf
"
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
GST_PLUGIN_FEATURE_RANK=v4l2vp8dec:SECONDARY,v4l2vp8enc:NONE,v4l2vp9dec:SECONDARY,v4l2h264dec:SECONDARY,v4l2h264enc:NONE,v4l2h265dec:SECONDARY,v4l2h265enc:NONE,v4l2mpeg2dec:SECONDARY
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
export GST_PLUGIN_FEATURE_RANK=v4l2vp8dec:SECONDARY,v4l2vp8enc:NONE,v4l2vp9dec:SECONDARY,v4l2h264dec:SECONDARY,v4l2h264enc:NONE,v4l2h265dec:SECONDARY,v4l2h265enc:NONE,v4l2mpeg2dec:SECONDARY