Hi Olivier, As per your comment here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team- updates-monday-2nd-november-2020/19154/7 I tried this with the latest/edge version of the snap:
$ snap info chromium ... tracking: latest/edge refresh-date: today at 10:13 CET channels: latest/stable: 86.0.4240.183 2020-11-04 (1382) 252MB - latest/candidate: 86.0.4240.183 2020-11-04 (1382) 252MB - latest/beta: 87.0.4280.47 2020-11-05 (1385) 254MB - latest/edge: 88.0.4315.5 2020-11-06 (1386) 256MB - installed: 88.0.4300.0 (1380) 256MB - I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 and when I run it, I see the following errors: $ LIBVA_MESSAGING_LEVEL=2 snap run chromium ... libva info: VA-API version 1.9.0 libva info: Trying to open /snap/chromium/1380/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 libva info: Trying to open /snap/chromium/1380/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 [130715:130715:1106/111245.061240:ERROR:vaapi_wrapper.cc(549)] vaInitialize failed: unknown libva error ... I don't really get why it's searching for the *_drv_video.so when the files there all of the *_dri.so kind: $ ls /snap/chromium/1380/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/ i915_dri.so kms_swrast_dri.so r200_dri.so radeon_dri.so virtio_gpu_dri.so i965_dri.so nouveau_dri.so r300_dri.so radeonsi_dri.so vmwgfx_dri.so iris_dri.so nouveau_vieux_dri.so r600_dri.so swrast_dri.so I do have an Intel HD Graphics 620 and here is my vainfo: $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_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 for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 20.1.1 () vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointStats VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointFEI VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointFEI VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointFEI VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1816497 Title: [snap] vaapi chromium no video hardware decoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1816497/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs