The one that fixes the vp9 stuttering? If it’s that one, at least the beta one didn’t do anything power wise (it did remove youtube stuttering in firefox though), I could retest the release one next week.
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Yeah it’s the release one for that issue. I haven’t personally looked at it so I don’t know for sure if there was anything else added to it from beta to release.
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I don’t have high hopes but I’ll retest it once I get back.
It’s important to test it specifically in a non-composited environment such as direct scan out or with a compositor not running to ensure the graphics engine doesn’t spin up so that you’re only looking at the hardware decoder.
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Fair enough, though I am pretty sure the ffmpeg into /dev/null cut out pretty much everything. Also the vaapi vs software decoding tests should also have everything else pretty much equal and jet the hw decoder uses significantly more power than software below 1080p30 (and both use significantly more power than doing the same takes on my t480s with an 8th gen i5), something fishy is going o there that isn’t just scaling and compositing.
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I’ve been following this because I would prefer to use firefox with hw video decoding, and currently cant because of this bug.
The firmware has been made available by AMD upstream (Thanks @Mario_Limonciello ) vaapi vp9 decoding glitches on rembrandt [Reproducer in comments] (#8044) · Issues · Mesa / mesa · GitLab
Waiting for fedora to push out updated RPMs that contain the updated firmware 2267714 – update amd-gpu-firmware to fix VP9 video decode stuttering issue
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The test firmware has worked well for me for the past 2 weeks, I have not noticed any video stutters. It did however unfortunately do nothing about the absurd power consumption.
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Seems to be pushed now!
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yes, I installed the updated firmware for fedora 39 this past weekend. Unfortunately, there is still stuttering when playing videos with hardware acceleration in firefox. It happens less frequently than before, but it is still happening 
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I wonder if it’s the same case as mine, it happens on 4k60 fps videos? Especially if you play it at 2x??
@David_Corning @1115 apologies if this is an obvious question but, did you re-generate the boot-time initrd image? The firmware that’s present in that (which is taken from the amd-gpu-firmware package that’s installed at the time of image creation) is what runs. Normally images are generated on new kernel version installs but in Fedora you can also run sudo dracut --force then reboot.
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Hello, thanks for asking! I think yes because using dmesg and finding the VCN version of the firmware, it’s running the latest version: VCN firmware Version ENC: 1.30 DEC. I’m on rembrandt btw (not a framework user yet)
Got it. If you have any reproducer video URLs you can share, please post them here and/or upstream.
I tried this one for a couple of minutes (made sure to set to 4K), no stuttering or other issues:
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I think on phoenix people should expect ≥ ENC: 1.17. With last firmware from gitlab I get:
[drm] Found VCN firmware Version ENC: 1.19 DEC: 7 VEP: 0 Revision: 0
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Playing this back at 4k60 and at normal speed there’s like 8 dropped frames/1000 total. At 2x speed it just turns to a static image.
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did you re-generate the boot-time initrd image?
No, I didn’t. It turns out I was on VCN firmware Version ENC: 1.12 DEC: 5 VEP: 0 Revision: 0.
After regenerating the initrd, now I’m at VCN firmware Version ENC: 1.19 DEC: 7 VEP: 0 Revision: 0.
There was a kernel update released roughly around the same time (kernel-6.7.9-200) and I thought I’d pulled in updated kernel + updated firmware all at the same time, but I misrememberd 
The kernel update came in first, and then hours later I pulled in the firmware.
Thanks for the reminder to check the basics first @dimitris 
I tested a 4k60 vid today, and no stuttering so far, fingers crossed.
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Have you tried playing the 4k60 @ 2x speed? Do you get drops?
I did that, didn’t get any drops or kernel errors at 2x either.
I had another look at the upstream issue mentioned earlier in the thread, originally opened for Rembrandt BTW, and they’re getting ready to close it - you might want to post something there.
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I’ve tried a couple of 4k vids (the Costa Rica vid posted earlier + this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9n6HkftavM), both at 2x speed, while keeping an eye on nvtop.
So far, so good.
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Thanks a lot!!!