In Regards to mpv: While vaapi has now been enabled please note that in a 'wayland' session mpv will not work properly with vaapi from the nautilus context menu. Only audio will work, no video.
The issue seems to be --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui Not sure what you all can do about this.. (- for my ppa users I'll provide a 2nd .desktop that will allow context menu/vaapi/opengl & produce expected results Likely named mpv wayland-only or thereabouts, basically - [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=mpv wayland-only Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/mpv.svg TryExec=/usr/bin/mpv Exec=mpv --player-operation-mode=cplayer -- %U Terminal=false NoDisplay=true Comment=Only for context menu in wayland session & vaapi Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Video;Player;TV; MimeType=blah, blah, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698287 Title: VA-API fails to initialize in a Gnome Shell Wayland session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libva/+bug/1698287/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs