jpeg SIMD (MMX) success!

dbosso · Post by **dbosso** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:05 pm

Howdy,

I spent several days a few months back trying to get the MJPEG project's jpeg-mmx package to work with ZM. I came to the realization that it is incomplete and unworkable. I even took a look at Intel's IPP package, but the licensing was restrictive, and the packaging was yucky.

Then, a couple of days ago I stumbled accross this:
http://cetus.sakura.ne.jp/softlab/jpeg- ... gsimd.html

an IJG JPEG library with x86 SIMD extensions. It's not AMD64 ready yet (but maybe soon!), so I spent the morning getting it set up on my home machine with a single camera attached.

And, it works! At least it seems to so far. I'm getting video, no crashes, and performance is excellent. The zmc process is now taking 21% cpu on top instead of 45%, and load is down by half.

So give it a shot, and if someone knows japanese, thank the author for me.

-David

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:13 pm

very very interseting mate. Very well done. I hav ebeen hoping for mmx option as i dont think it can be there by default due to arch issues, but bloody well done mate. Dont suppose you fancy documenting what you did?
Pretty please

James

dbosso · Post by **dbosso** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:31 pm

It's a drop in replacement for the standard IJG libs. I'm using Gentoo, so I created an ebuild that used the SIMD source instead of the standard source.

The ebuild is pretty hacky right now, so I'm not going to release it, but I'll try and clean it up when I get back from vacation next week.

You should be able to just compile the SIMD source and drop the resulting libs over your existing ones.

-David

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:31 pm

ok i will try thankyou v. much

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:07 pm

Excellent find. Keep us informed how it pans out over the next few days and weeks.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:59 am

ok then slightl;y out my depth here i think!!!
Downloaded source
./configure --enable-shared
make
make test
make install

Now i assume i have a shared jpeg lib
How do i make the system use the new library?

Cheers again

dbosso · Post by **dbosso** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:15 pm

Well, if make install copied them over your previous libraries then all you'd need to do is run ldconfig and restart ZM.

Does anyone on this board speak Japanese? I've emailed the author on the status of the AMD64 source, but received no response. I'd love it if someone would email or post to the support forum he has in Japanese to find out what the status is.

-David

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:55 pm

it didnt but i copied them over my old libs and wow what a difference on a celeron 3.2 gig went form 29% idle to 54% idle

Well done on the find and the share mate!!

Cheers

sugacapra · Post by **sugacapra** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:50 am

using babelfish i obtain a (good?) english translation and maybe we can rewrite him using the babelfish again...

but my question is:
can i use this to speed up my Zoneminder using the via epia motherboard ?
is the cyrix mmx compatible?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:00 am

i would have thought so, wasnt the original cyrix (m1) pin compatible with a p1mmx

sugacapra · Post by **sugacapra** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:11 am

jameswilson wrote:i would have thought so, wasnt the original cyrix (m1) pin compatible with a p1mmx

ok, that help my mind, i will try and maybe it work.. otherwise ...

unclerichy · Post by **unclerichy** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:41 pm

I've successfully built it on my Lex board which runs an M10000 Nehemiah. ZM has successfully come back up but I haven't had time to make any performance comparisons.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:07 pm

just tested thins on my big test rig
1 megapixel 1280x1024 running at 10 fps + 6 x 640x480 at 2 fps on an fx60

55%% user 4.6%user 37.9% idle (ish)

Had 3% idle before mmx library.

Post by **zoneminder** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:02 am

So am I to take it that this replacement library has been an unequivocal succes?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:07 am

has with me on amd x2, celeron, and p4. Have yet to test a sempron and a pentiumd