GPU Offloading & Usage

[Varun_R_2]

Hi All,

I have some basic doubts (which may sound silly), please clarify: 

how we can say that, when we run sample applications (lets say multi_transcoding_drm), is running on/offloaded to GPU? I could see the following log messages while running the sample application:

Pipeline surfaces number: 14
MFX HARDWARE Session 16 API ver 1.16 parameters:  -->Is this telling that it is offloaded to GPU?
Input  video: AVC 
Output video: MPG2

I'm using Intel-NUC-Kit-NUC5i7RYH. Is there any special hardware chip which is doing video transcoding thing in this kit? 

Is there any CLI tool for calculating the GPU usage (something like top in linux)?

[Jiandong_Z_Intel]

Hi There,

You are using Linux, right ?

For Linux, if you install MSS , you can find metrics_monitor under  /opt/intel/mediasdk/tools/, you can refer to metricsmon-man.pdf in doc folder.

Thank,

Zachary

[Varun_R_2]

Hi Zachary,

Thanks for the details. I could see the usage details using that command.

[root@localhost _bin]# ./metrics_monitor 

RENDER usage: 100.00,    VIDEO usage: 100.00,    VIDEO_E usage: 0.00    VIDEO2 usage: 100.00
RENDER usage: 100.00,    VIDEO usage: 100.00,    VIDEO_E usage: 0.00    VIDEO2 usage: 100.00
RENDER usage: 91.00,    VIDEO usage: 92.00,    VIDEO_E usage: 0.00    VIDEO2 usage: 92.00
RENDER usage: 75.76,    VIDEO usage: 74.75,    VIDEO_E usage: 0.00    VIDEO2 usage: 74.75
RENDER usage: 97.96,    VIDEO usage: 100.00,    VIDEO_E usage: 0.00    VIDEO2 usage: 100.00
RENDER usage: 100.00,    VIDEO usage: 100.00,    VIDEO_E usage: 0.00    VIDEO2 usage: 100.00