Package: vainfo
Version: 2.6.0+ds1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Debian folks,
With an Intel Broadwell laptop
$ lspci -nn -s 0:2
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD
Graphics 5500 [8086:1616] (rev 09)
I am trying to get H264 decoded on the GPU. Therefore, I installed
*intel-media-va-driver-non-free* [1], which uninstalled
*intel-media-va-driver*. Now, `va_openDriver()` fails to load the
appropriate library.
```
$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iris_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iris_drv_video.so
$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iris_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.6.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver - 19.4.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointStats
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
```
How should the non-free library be included appropriately? It really
makes a difference as mpv usages drops from around 40 % to 12 %.
Kind regards,
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages vainfo depends on:
ii libc6 2.30-4
ii libva-drm2 2.7.0-1
ii libva-wayland2 2.7.0-1
ii libva-x11-2 2.7.0-1
ii libva2 2.7.0-1
ii libwayland-client0 1.18.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.9-2
vainfo recommends no packages.
vainfo suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
