No vaapi feautures/plugins when 1.14 version is compiled and installed on Ubuntu 16.04

[Víctor Jáquez]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 at 07:33, Jiang Pin wrote:
> I tried two machines. The one with Intel integrated Graphics vaapi works,
> another one with Nivida Graphics doens't show any features with vaapi
> plugins .
> 
> I already got vdpau-va-driver installed and vdpauinfo returns is Okay on the
> machine with Nvidia Graphics.
> 
> Shouldn't vaapi also support nividia graphics ? Is it a problem with
> gst-vaapi 1.14 ?

No.

vdpau-va-driver is un-maintained and it has several unfixed problems.

For that reason we added a white list of backends in gstremaer-vaapi, and
vdpau-va-driver is not in that list.

More info: https://blogs.igalia.com/vjaquez/2018/03/28/gstreamer-va-api-troubleshooting/

vmjl