This is strictly NetBSD evbarm (arm64) Pinebook performance test that I wanted to share if anybody is interested.
Since most of the NetBSD binary packages are built via pkgsrc framework (which can be a lengthy process definitely not for the impatient) I stumbled across the following problems on the pkgsrc -current and pkgsrc-Q3-2018
- /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/mplayer – fails to compile/build due to some ASM related errors
- /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/totem – builds but after building a couple of gstreamer codec packages that are essential, it does not play any videos at all
- /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/xine – fails to compile/build
- /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg* (compiles – see notes below)
Now I will briefly describe what I have done with ffmpeg (I believe it is a part of hundred other multimedia software projects etc.) so it would be most probably the best suited candidate to try.
Now if you notice that in the standard pkgsrc Makefiles for any of the versions of ffmpeg2 > the ffplay configure option is set to disable
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-ffplay
Since pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg2 ffmpeg3 and ffmpeg4 misbehave slightly during standard builds I have rather built the ffmpeg2 and ffmpeg4 natively (not via pkgsrc framework) and performed some tests (video conversion and video playback)
During the ffmpeg2 pkgsrc configure stage, the scripts barfed out that there is no openssl installed and bailed out. I have used a little “cheat” since I did not want to get into debugging the pkgsrc patchfiles and Makefiles and decided to just ./configure inside the /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/work/ffmpeg2-xxxx/ and copied all the pkgsrc SDL includes to local /usr/include
32 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 12783 Nov 12 14:19 bozohttpd.h 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 12 14:19 security 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 12 14:19 rump 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Nov 12 14:58 openssl 16 drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 512 Nov 28 09:57 .. 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3233 Dec 8 11:33 SDL.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1933 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_active.h 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11215 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_audio.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 986 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_byteorder.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6048 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_cdrom.h 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9123 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_config.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2221 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_cpuinfo.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6055 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_endian.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1874 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_error.h 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 13041 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_events.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2607 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_framerate.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 979 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_getenv.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4510 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_gfxBlitFunc.h 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10961 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_gfxPrimitives.h 112 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 55909 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_gfxPrimitives_font.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5513 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_image.h 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10318 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_imageFilter.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5532 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_joystick.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4098 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_keyboard.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7492 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_keysym.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2739 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_loadso.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2866 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_main.h 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 27739 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_mixer.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4754 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_mouse.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5860 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_mutex.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 183 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_name.h 48 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 18319 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_net.h 672 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 336544 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_opengl.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2708 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_platform.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2009 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_quit.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2960 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_rotozoom.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4958 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_rwops.h 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25770 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_sound.h 48 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16473 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_stdinc.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6319 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_syswm.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4242 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_thread.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4527 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_timer.h 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10711 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_ttf.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 979 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_types.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2637 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_version.h 80 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 38018 Dec 8 11:33 SDL_video.h 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5230 Dec 8 11:34 begin_code.h 16 drwxr-xr-x 58 root wheel 6144 Dec 8 11:34 . 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1482 Dec 8 11:34 close_code.h
Next I have placed the .configure_done file inside the /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg2/work and after gmake finished I had to add .build_done to work as well as to tweak the PLIST with the new set of files so it would properly build a pkgsrc binary package
So now I have a fully working ffmpeg2 with ffplay (although the files are quite heavy
25088 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12721520 Dec 8 23:50 ffmpeg 24832 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12634352 Dec 8 23:50 ffplay 24960 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12658928 Dec 8 23:52 ffprobe 23040 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11681168 Dec 8 23:52 ffserver
So lets do some bench-marking now. For this I have chosen the following youtube video from Samsung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8leorFMy0rg
Fetching the above on the Pinebook via youtube-dl produced an MKV file “Samsung Plasma TV Demo Full HD 1080p-8leorFMy0rg.mkv” Matroska data
Playing MKV via ffplay was exxtremely slow I decided to test and convert the file to MP4 via ffmpeg since we already have it built. Please note that I have used an external USB stick to keep the data since it is much faster than the MicroSD card I run NetBSD off from :)
$ /usr/bin/time -l ffmpeg -i Samsung\ Plasma\ TV\ Demo\ Full\ HD\ 1080p-8leorFMy0rg.mkv -strict -2 -qscale 0 samsung.mp4 built with gcc 6.5.0 (nb4 20181109) configuration: --prefix=/usr/pkg --mandir=/usr/pkg/man --docdir=/usr/pkg/doc --sysinclude=/usr/pkg/include libavutil 54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100 libavcodec 56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100 libavformat 56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101 libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100 libavfilter 5. 40.101 / 5. 40.101 libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101 libswresample 1. 2.101 / 1. 2.101 Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'Samsung Plasma TV Demo Full HD 1080p-8leorFMy0rg.mkv': Metadata: COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: iso6avc1mp41 MAJOR_BRAND : dash MINOR_VERSION : 0 ENCODER : Lavf56.40.101 Duration: 00:01:47.18, start: 0.007000, bitrate: 1515 kb/s Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default) Metadata: CREATION_TIME : 2018-11-13 09:39:56 LANGUAGE : und HANDLER_NAME : VideoHandler DURATION : 00:01:47.140000000 Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default) Metadata: LANGUAGE : eng DURATION : 00:01:47.181000000 Please use -q:a or -q:v, -qscale is ambiguous Output #0, mp4, to 'samsung.mp4': Metadata: COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: iso6avc1mp41 MAJOR_BRAND : dash MINOR_VERSION : 0 encoder : Lavf56.40.101 Stream #0:0(und): Video: mpeg4 ( [0][0][0] / 0x0020), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 30k tbn, 29.97 tbc (default) Metadata: CREATION_TIME : 2018-11-13 09:39:56 LANGUAGE : und HANDLER_NAME : VideoHandler DURATION : 00:01:47.140000000 encoder : Lavc56.60.100 mpeg4 Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default) Metadata: LANGUAGE : eng DURATION : 00:01:47.181000000 encoder : Lavc56.60.100 aac Stream mapping: Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 (native) -> mpeg4 (native)) Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (opus (native) -> aac (native)) 347.74 real 1024.24 user 6.37 sys 125384 maximum resident set size 0 average shared memory size 0 average unshared data size 0 average unshared stack size 30829 page reclaims 0 page faults 0 swaps 0 block input operations 212 block output operations 0 messages sent 0 messages received 0 signals received 41228 voluntary context switches 15818 involuntary context switches ffmpeg version 2.8.14 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 6.5.0 (nb4 20181109)
So the above translates to 00:05:47 of clean conversion time using ffmpeg2.
When executed via ffmpeg4
ffmpeg version 4.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 6.5.0 (nb4 20181109) 329.67 real 1016.10 user 5.38 sys
Which is roughly the same (slightly faster than with ffmpeg2)
I have done exactly the same on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 which has
On the Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz (4 cores)
$ time ffmpeg -i Samsung\ Plasma\ TV\ Demo\ Full\ HD\ 1080p-8leorFMy0rg.mkv -strict -2 -qscale 0 samsung.mp4
built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)
configuration:
libavutil 56. 18.102 / 56. 18.102
libavcodec 58. 21.104 / 58. 21.104
libavformat 58. 17.101 / 58. 17.101
libavdevice 58. 4.101 / 58. 4.101
libavfilter 7. 25.100 / 7. 25.100
libswscale 5. 2.100 / 5. 2.100
libswresample 3. 2.100 / 3. 2.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'Samsung Plasma TV Demo Full HD 1080p-8leorFMy0rg.mkv':
Metadata:
COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: iso6avc1mp41
MAJOR_BRAND : dash
MINOR_VERSION : 0
ENCODER : Lavf56.40.101
Duration: 00:01:47.18, start: -0.007000, bitrate: 1515 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709, progressive), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
Metadata:
CREATION_TIME : 2018-11-13 09:39:56
LANGUAGE : und
HANDLER_NAME : VideoHandler
DURATION : 00:01:47.140000000
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
Metadata:
LANGUAGE : eng
DURATION : 00:01:47.181000000
Please use -q:a or -q:v, -qscale is ambiguous
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 (native) -> mpeg4 (native))
Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (opus (native) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Output #0, mp4, to 'samsung.mp4':
Metadata:
COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: iso6avc1mp41
MAJOR_BRAND : dash
MINOR_VERSION : 0
encoder : Lavf58.17.101
Stream #0:0(und): Video: mpeg4 (mp4v / 0x7634706D), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 30k tbn, 29.97 tbc (default)
Metadata:
CREATION_TIME : 2018-11-13 09:39:56
LANGUAGE : und
HANDLER_NAME : VideoHandler
DURATION : 00:01:47.140000000
encoder : Lavc58.21.104 mpeg4
Side data:
cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/200000 buffer size: 0 vbv_delay: -1
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
LANGUAGE : eng
DURATION : 00:01:47.181000000
encoder : Lavc58.21.104 aac
real 0m30,361s
user 1m29,559s
sys 0m0,825s
Which equals 30 seconds, using ffmpeg v. N-91455 on Intel x86_64
Finally I wanted to play the resulting video on the Pinebook via ffplay (ffmpeg2) and here is the result
Not sharing the playback via ffplay (ffmpeg4) because its too choppy and slow.