No VAAPI hardware acceleration in some hardware

[tomas7770]

Hardware video encoding/decoding isn't fully functional in some hardware.

It seems that Fedora's free Mesa packages are being used instead of negativo17.

Tested hardware

• Model: ASUS Vivobook M7400QC
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H
• Graphics: AMD Radeon Graphics + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
• Memory: 16.0 GiB

System version

My own custom image based on kinoite-nvidia.

Details

vainfo output:

libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
Trying display: wayland
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 24.3.4 for AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi, renoir, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.60, 6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc

rpm -qilf /usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so output:

Name        : mesa-va-drivers
Version     : 24.3.4
Release     : 3.fc41
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: dom 23 fev 2025 04:09:31
Group       : Unspecified
Size        : 92
License     : MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND SGI-B-2.0
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, qua 29 jan 2025 15:36:19, Key ID d0622462e99d6ad1
Source RPM  : mesa-24.3.4-3.fc41.src.rpm
Build Date  : qua 29 jan 2025 09:42:08
Build Host  : buildvm-x86-23.iad2.fedoraproject.org
Packager    : Fedora Project
Vendor      : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.mesa3d.org
Bug URL     : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/mesa
Summary     : Mesa-based VA-API video acceleration drivers
Description :
Mesa-based VA-API video acceleration drivers.
/usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
/usr/lib64/dri/r600_drv_video.so
/usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
/usr/lib64/dri/virtio_gpu_drv_video.so

Here in a build of kinoite-nvidia you can see the Mesa packages being downgraded. My guess is because it's trying to install mesa-vulkan-drivers.i686 after disabling the negativo17 multimedia repo, it resorts to the Fedora one, and has to downgrade the other packages as well to satisfy dependencies.

Workaround

As a workaround I added this to my image's build script:

rpm-ostree override replace \
      --experimental \
      --from repo='fedora-multimedia' \
      --remove=mesa-libglapi \
        mesa-dri-drivers \
        mesa-filesystem \
        mesa-libEGL \
        mesa-libGL \
        mesa-libgbm \
        mesa-va-drivers \
        mesa-vulkan-drivers \
        mesa-vulkan-drivers.i686

And now it works as intended.

libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
Trying display: wayland
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 25.0.0 for AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi, renoir, ACO, DRM 3.60, 6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc

Name        : mesa-va-drivers
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 25.0.0
Release     : 1.fc41
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: seg 24 fev 2025 15:48:53
Group       : Unspecified
Size        : 92
License     : MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND SGI-B-2.0
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, sáb 22 fev 2025 14:37:35, Key ID 97f3008993e8909b
Source RPM  : mesa-25.0.0-1.fc41.src.rpm
Build Date  : sáb 22 fev 2025 14:23:24
Build Host  : wks2.lab.negativo17.org
URL         : http://www.mesa3d.org
Summary     : Mesa-based VA-API video acceleration drivers
Description :
Mesa-based VA-API video acceleration drivers.
/usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
/usr/lib64/dri/r600_drv_video.so
/usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
/usr/lib64/dri/virtio_gpu_drv_video.so