[Nouveau] libva problem?

[Ilia Mirkin]

What GPU do you have? For video acceleration (i.e. va-api and vdpau),
did you install the necessary firmware?

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:53 PM, James <bjlockie at lockie.ca> wrote:
> I am playing videos from my lubuntu computer to my tv through the hdmi
> interface on my video card.
> It mostly works.
> Some sound doesn't and I think it is related to the audio code.
> A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52) works.
> It seems MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a) doesn't work.
> I checked a video that used to work and it doesn't work now.
> It has the mp4a codec also.
>
> The one that used to work shows this in Tools/Messages:
> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 7
>
> The new one that doesn't work shows this in Tools/Messages:
> vdpau_avcodec error: decoder profile not supported: 8
>
> I think it might be related to the noveau video driver:
> $ vainfo
> libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
> libva info: Trying to open
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
> libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
>
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