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Matix

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Registered: 2020-03-23

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Hardware video acceleration doesn't work

I have i5-7200U so according to Arch wiki I installed intel-media-driver and libva-utils to check if it's working then I rebooted.
Unfortunately when I run vainfo I get following message

vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

I use optimus manager and modesetting as intel driver, because it's recommended.
I've also tried chromium-vaapi and I get these messages: (ignore-gpu-blacklist flag doesn't change antyhing)

[2082:2082:0412/154514.927337:ERROR:browser_switcher_service.cc(238)] XXX Init()
[2103:2103:0412/154515.518177:ERROR:vaapi_wrapper.cc(485)] vaInitialize failed: unknown libva error
[2103:2103:0412/154515.569993:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

Youtube still consumes even 70% cpu :\

Last edited by Matix (2020-04-12 13:50:04)

CarbonChauvinist

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Re: Hardware video acceleration doesn't work

Have you made sure you have the correct environment variable(s) for LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME? It should be iHD.

There are issues with vaapi in chromium-vaapi build rn iirc - check the mega thread for better info.

Last edited by CarbonChauvinist (2020-04-12 14:27:36)

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Re: Hardware video acceleration doesn't work

Matix, you filed a report rather than making a reply. If your topic really is solved as your report suggests, then please remember to mark your thread as such by editing the first post and amending the topic title:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

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