Please enable Intel SMD acceleration on AS-304T

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MisterC925
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Please enable Intel SMD acceleration on AS-304T

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I am a recent purchaser of an AS-304T and am wondering why the Intel SMD transcoding seems to be disabled.

The AS-304T uses the same processor (Intel CE5335 Evansport) that the Synology DS214Play uses.

The processor has full support for offloading transcoding from the CPU to dedicated hardware.

Asustor even includes a version of ffmpeg in looksgood called "ffmpeg-intel" that has been compiled to use the SMD codecs (-c:v h264_smd for example) but it fails due to missing pieces (the /proc/platform_config driver is missing, I think at the kernel level)

ASUSTOR's own product literature advertises accelerated transcoding on the 304T but it does not seem to be implemented.

Please consider implementing this change in future version of the firmware. It's not fair to leave it disabled just to sell newer models.

Thanks!
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RMerlin
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Re: Please enable Intel SMD acceleration on AS-304T

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Just a thought: try booting the NAS plugged to a monitor and keyboard, and enter its BIOS. See if possibly you could enable it in the BIOS.
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dhstsw
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Re: Please enable Intel SMD acceleration on AS-304T

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Legends tell that asustor can't implement it on transcoding (or kodi/xbmc) because Intel never released the drivers.

If Synology uses the same cpu and has the drivers while asustor doesn't, well, i thinks something is quite fishy, isn't it?
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MisterC925
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Re: Please enable Intel SMD acceleration on AS-304T

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I'm going to look at the synology GPL code dumps and see if their ffmpeg can be applied to the Asustor. I think there might be concerns because the SMD stuff uses binary blobs, but as long as ASUS releases their kernel source and the intel binary bits (or provides links to them) they should still be GPL compliant.
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MisterC925
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Re: Please enable Intel SMD acceleration on AS-304T

Post by MisterC925 »

So I installed the 11/9/2015 update to ADM and it appears that ASUS has enabed SMD in kernel.

Using the same ffmpeg-intel binary from looksgood that failed before I get 100fps 720p to 720p h264 transcode with like 25% of one core used.

Using software ffmpeg you get 19fps and max out all of the cores.

Now that the kernel level stuff is working, I just have to convince (or do it myself) PLEX to support it as well :)

Thanks ASUSTOR folks!
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