[solved] ffmpeg update breaks nvidia api dependency 13.0

Jodi42 · 2026-08-15 12:06:40

$ pacman -Qi ffmpeg | grep -E 'Name|Version|Install Date'          
Name            : ffmpeg
Version         : 2:9.0.1-1
Install Date    : Fri 14 Aug 2026 04:27:07 AM IST

$ nvidia-smi
Sat Aug 15 17:35:01 2026       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.178.04             Driver Version: 580.178.04     CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ...    On  |   00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   59C    P8             16W /   80W |     326MiB /   8192MiB |      7%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            1302      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                           227MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5409      G   alacritty                                10MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            6541      G   ...rack-uuid=3190708988185955192         57MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

After this update any conversion involving nvenc throws this error on ffmpeg

[hevc_nvenc @ 0x55695363abc0] Driver does not support the required nvenc API version. Required: 13.1 Found: 13.0
[hevc_nvenc @ 0x55695363abc0] The minimum required Nvidia driver for nvenc is 610.00 or newer
[vost#0:0/hevc_nvenc @ 0x55695367b0c0] [enc:hevc_nvenc @ 0x55695366e280] Error while opening encoder - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height.
[vf#0:0 @ 0x55695363af80] Error sending frames to consumers: Function not implemented
[vf#0:0 @ 0x55695363af80] Task finished with error code: -38 (Function not implemented)
[vf#0:0 @ 0x55695363af80] Terminating thread with return code -38 (Function not implemented)
[vost#0:0/hevc_nvenc @ 0x55695367b0c0] [enc:hevc_nvenc @ 0x55695366e280] Could not open encoder before EOF
[vost#0:0/hevc_nvenc @ 0x55695367b0c0] Task finished with error code: -22 (Invalid argument)
[vost#0:0/hevc_nvenc @ 0x55695367b0c0] Terminating thread with return code -22 (Invalid argument)
[out#0/matroska @ 0x556953638880] Nothing was written into output file, because at least one of its streams received no packets.

I am using AUR nvidia driver

 pacman -Qi nvidia | grep -E 'Name|Version|Install Date'
Name            : nvidia-580xx-dkms
Version         : 580.178.04-1
Install Date    : Thu 13 Aug 2026 08:47:33 PM IST

Last edited by Jodi42 (Today 13:35:15)

Lone_Wolf · 2026-08-15 12:16:29

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

That card is from the ampere family which is supported by the nvidia-open driver.

I am using AUR nvidia driver

Why ?

Jodi42 · 2026-08-15 19:09:03

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Why ?

My laptop hp omen was having sleep/suspend issues with drivers from official pacman repo. So by recommendation of @seth in this forum I switched to this aur driver and those issues are gone.

seth · 2026-08-15 19:41:09

You could test whether those issues remain.
The alternative would be to pin ffmepg and wait and hope that a 580xx update provides nvenc 13.1 (but that's not a longterm strategy) or lose nvenc support.

Jodi42 · 2026-08-15 23:12:16

seth wrote:

The alternative would be to pin ffmepg and wait

What do you mean by pin ffmpeg. Is there any way to downgrade ffmpeg. I already cleaned cache so I don't have any copy of older version.

Jodi42 · 2026-08-15 23:14:40

What are the chances that an update will drop for this problem

seth · 2026-08-16 00:00:41

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" - but it's a minor version update and the driver is still maintained.

kokoko3k · 2026-08-17 07:07:34

I've still to update and I'll face the issue on my 1030.

Maybe it's worth considering building and keeping a local old ffmpeg just for the nvenc encoding task.

Jodi42 · Today 13:34:40

ffmpeg version 2:9.0-5 works fine and I am sticking to it

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-2%3A9.0-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

This command installed the copy without any hassle

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[solved] ffmpeg update breaks nvidia api dependency 13.0

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