[Nouveau] VAAPI on GeForce GT 620M

[Analabha Roy]

Hi,

If I am reading the featurematrix
<https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/> right, VAAPI is
supported for nouveau on the GeForce650M (my card).

Here is the output of inxi -F

System:    Host: MediaServer Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Console: tty 1 Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Machine:   Device: laptop System: SAMSUNG product: 300E4C/300E5C/300E7C v:
0.1 serial: N/A
           Mobo: SAMSUNG model: NP300E5X-U01IN v: FAB1 serial: N/A
           UEFI [Legacy]: Phoenix v: P06RAC date: 10/25/2012
Battery    BAT1: charge: 47.5 Wh 100.0% condition: 47.5/47.5 Wh (100%)
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i3-2310M (-MT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2100 MHz 1: 835 MHz 2: 1031 MHz 3: 905 MHz 4:
927 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
Graphics Controller
           Card-2: NVIDIA GF108M [GeForce GT 620M]
           Display Server: X.org 1.20.8 driver: i915 tty size: 171x45
Advanced Data: N/A out of X


I have installed nouveau, and extracted the firmware from the prop nvidia
drivers separately as per instructions on
 https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/
<https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/>
See installed firmware @ https://pastebin.com/Gaqxb88g

<https://pastebin.com/Gaqxb88g>
But running vainfo yields error: https://pastebin.com/NyULBhXt

Does the error mean that VAAPI is unsupported, or does it indicate a config
problem?

Thanks,
AR
-- 
Analabha Roy
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
<http://www.buruniv.ac.in/academics/department/physics>
The University of Burdwan <http://www.buruniv.ac.in/>
Golapbag Campus, Barddhaman 713104
West Bengal, India
Emails: daneel at utexas.edu, aroy at phys.buruniv.ac.in, hariseldon99 at gmail.com
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