Problems with function MFXVideoENCODE_Init

[Clemens_K_]

Hy,

Hy, I tried to use the simple_encode example in a linux environmet. Everything is compiling fine but when I start the software it always stops at the function MFXVideoENCODE_Init with the error code: MFX_ERR_NOT_INITIALIZED. How can I solve that? I've added the sourcecode in the attachment.

One thing, that might cause the problem is, that I wasn't able to link the libmfx.a. I used the dynamic library libmfxhw64.so which compliled fine. I also tried to link the libmfx.a but that gave me the errors as you can see in compileOutput.txt.

Thanks in advance

Clemens

[Jeffrey_M_Intel1]

Hi Clemens,

There are not many differences between Media SDK for Linux and Windows, but you have run into one of them.  For Windows, passing a HW device handle to MSDK is only required when using GPU memory.  For Linux this step is required for ALL Media SDK applications.

The code should look something like this:

mfxIMPL impl = MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE_ANY;
mfxVersion ver = { 0, 1 };
MFXVideoSession session;

// Initialize Intel Media SDK Session
sts = session.Init(impl, &ver);

// Create VA display
int fd = open("/dev/dri/card0", O_RDWR);
VADisplay va_dpy = vaGetDisplayDRM(fd);
int maj_ver, min_ver;
vaInitialize(va_dpy, &maj_ver, &min_ver);

// Provide VA display handle to Media SDK
session.SetHandle(static_cast < mfxHandleType >
(MFX_HANDLE_VA_DISPLAY), va_dpy);

While it is possible to compile with gcc it will take some modifications from the code you've attached.  g++ will be an easier starting point.

In case it might help I've added a reference makefile below.

EXEC=simple_session
SRCS=simple_session.cpp

CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -I$(MFX_HOME)/include
LFLAGS=-L$(MFX_HOME)/lib/lin_x64 -lmfx -ldl -lpthread -lva -lva-drm -lstdc++

$(EXEC): $(SRCS) Makefile
g++ -o $(EXEC) $(SRCS) $(CFLAGS) $(LFLAGS)

We are working on more documentation and simple examples for Linux.  Please stay tuned.