linux vaapi, Could not initialize supporting library.

[Víctor M. Jáquez L.]

On 04/05/16 at 12:24am, Miloš Selečéni wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying basic HW encoding on linux(Centos7 and NvidiaM4000), using
> vaapi-1.7.91 but every vaapi plugin (e.g vaapih264enc , vaapih265enc) fail
> to initialize. I build all from source code including x265, libav etc.
> 
> ./gst-launch-1.0 --gst-debug=2,vaapih265enc:5 -ev videotestsrc
> num-buffers=60 ! vaapih265enc:5 ! fakesink
> 
> videoencoder
> gstvideoencoder.c:1559:gst_video_encoder_change_state:<vaapiencodevp8-0>
> error: Failed to open encoder

Run the command vainfo and you'll get a list of codecs supported by you
hardware.

Being a nvidia card, there is not encoding support of any codec. AFAIK, H265
is only supported by the intel backend from skylake boards.

> from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstVaapiEncodeVP8:vaapiencodevp8-0:
> Could not initialize supporting library.

VP8???? That's not HEVC/H265... strange...

But, yeah, we can do better at log messaging this kind of errors.

vmjl

> 
> 
> I spent hours by debuging and re-installing plugins (libav, x265,
> gst-vaapi) but I can't figure it out where the problem is. Unfortunately
> there is no other error message just this one. I'm running Centos7, with
> Nvidia M4000, there is no Display connected to this server.

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