u/JackStrawWitchita

It's mainly based in the SW but there are some great titles and interesting sub-genres.

https://www.southwestsilents.com/copy-of-festival-schedule

It really changes the experience to see these movies on a big screen in a theatre.

https://preview.redd.it/ghx4qt2ti0rh1.jpg?width=987&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3fac26eecce85fd433356d530e5985c1d0a5822

I spent hours working on this today and thought the resolution might help some other AMD people in the future.

Got Chatterbox TTS (the Extended fork by petermg, has auto chunking for long text) running on an AMD 7900 XTX with ROCm 7.2. Hit two AMD-specific walls that took a while to track down, posting in case it saves someone else the time.

Setup: Ubuntu 24.04, ROCm 7.2.1, gfx1100 (7900 XTX), torch installed via the official ROCm 7.2 wheel index (pip install torch torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm7.2). This part is well documented and just works, no gfx overrides needed since gfx1100 is officially supported.

Problem 1: faster-whisper crashes on ROCm

This fork uses Whisper to auto validate generated audio against the input text. faster-whisper runs on ctranslate2, which has zero ROCm support, only NVIDIA CUDA. Error was:

CUDA failed with error CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version

No fix available, ctranslate2 just doesn't build for AMD. Workaround: tick "Bypass Whisper Checking" in the UI to skip validation entirely. You lose the auto quality check/retry feature but generation itself works fine.

Problem 2: torchaudio.save/load require torchcodec, which also has no ROCm support

Newer torchaudio versions route save() and load() through torchcodec by default. torchcodec's precompiled wheels are linked against CUDA-only libraries (libcudart, libnvrtc, etc), confirmed via ldd showing "not found" on all of them. This isn't a missing-package problem, there's no ROCm build to install.

Fix: bypass torchcodec entirely by writing small wrapper functions using soundfile instead (already a dependency of this project):

def save_audio_sf(path, wav, sr):

import numpy as np

arr = wav.detach().cpu().numpy() if hasattr(wav, "detach") else wav

if arr.ndim == 2:

arr = arr.T # torchaudio: (channels, samples) -> soundfile: (samples, channels)

sf.write(path, arr, sr)

def load_audio_sf(path):

import torch

arr, sr = sf.read(path, always_2d=True)

arr = arr.T

waveform = torch.from_numpy(arr).float()

return waveform, sr

Then swap every torchaudio.save(x, y, z) call for save_audio_sf(x, y, z), and every torchaudio.load(x) for load_audio_sf(x). Same argument order, drop-in replacement.

TL;DR: torch itself works great on ROCm for this. The pain points are two unrelated libraries (ctranslate2, torchcodec) that Chatterbox's dependencies pull in, both of which are CUDA only with no ROCm build anywhere. Worth knowing before you go down the same rabbit hole, since neither issue is really about Chatterbox itself, it'll likely bite other torchaudio-based projects on ROCm too.

It's been a few days now and the Opera browser VPN hasn't been working. A message says something about 'we're working on it' but I've never seen it down this long before.

Anyone know what's happening?

Since it migrated to the new address it's completely unusable. You get one question answered then all other queries are refused with a prompt to upgrade.

It's unusable like this. I'm not going to pay for a service that is unavailable or I can't try out thoroughly.

Like many I was caught in the railway meltdown in Manchester. Seeing it was not looking good i stratgised with staff on how to escape town and get closer to home. Randomly a woman heard me talking about walking to the bus station as she too was heading to Liverpool and asked to tag along. We had a friendly talk on the way and it turns out she was recently bereaved. As a widower myself of some years we connected in the processing of grief while purchasing National Rail bus tickets. Luckily we caught the last seats. We were split up on the bus but I ended up sitting next to a retired and extremely well travelled history professor and we shared exotic travel stories as the bus battled traffic.

Yes, rail meltdown is no fun but I had excellent conversations with people I'd never have met if it wasn't for this railway calamity.

Good spirits during travel troubles yield its own rewards.