VAAPI assistance

[Víctor Jáquez]

Long story short: libva-vdpau bridge is not in gstreamer-vaapi drivers whitelist
and it's basically unmaintained.

You can check
https://blogs.igalia.com/vjaquez/2018/03/28/gstreamer-va-api-troubleshooting/
for further information.


On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 11:54, Jerry Geis wrote:
> Hello my hardware has:
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2)
> 
> rpm -qa | grep nvidia
> nvidia-detect-410.78-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-340xx-340.107-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64
> nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.107-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> 
> rpm -qa | grep libva
> libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4-19.el7.x86_64
> libva-utils-1.8.3-4.el7.x86_64
> libva-devel-1.8.3-1.el7.x86_64
> libva-1.8.3-1.el7.x86_64
> 
> rpm -qa | grep vdpau
> libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4-19.el7.x86_64
> libvdpau-1.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
> 
> vainfo
> libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
> libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_40
> libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
> vainfo: VA-API version: 0.40 (libva )
> vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems VDPAU backend for VA-API -
> 0.7.4
> vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
>       VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileMPEG4Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileMPEG4AdvancedSimple    : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
> 
> grep Driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> [    43.069] X.Org Video Driver: 24.0
> [    45.744] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> [    45.744] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  340.107  Thu May 24 21:18:05
> PDT 2018
> [    45.744] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
> [    47.328] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
> 
> grep -i vdpau /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> [    46.978] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nvidia
> 
> 
> 
> So to me all looks good - but there is no hardware acceleration???
> gst-inspect-1.0 | grep vaapi
> returns nothing.
> 
> When I play the video with totem its taking way too much CPU.
> I removed the ~/.cache/gstreamer* .
> 
> What have I missed ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jerry

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