The vainfo shows that you're running very old versions. You may be able to
resolve the issues you're facing by first removing stale versions of libva,
libva-utils and intel-vaapi-driver, then reinstalling with the latest:
https://github.com/01org/libva
https://github.com/01org/libva-utils
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Mark,
Thanks for your response. I agree with you and actually had an implementation
similar to what you've described for the decoder but abandoned it; I haven't
found an elegant way without making too many changes to indicate it much later
when hardware is actually set up for execution. This