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Package: gstreamer1.0-vaapi
Version: 1.12.2-1+b1
Severity: normal
gstreamer-vaapi appears not to work in a GNOME Wayland environment. If I
run totem from the command line it shows an error message, but
apparently falls back to software rendering:
libva error: va_getDriverName() failed with unknown libva
error,driver_name=(null)
Trying to play a file with gst-launch:
$ gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///home/tony/Videos/paul.mkv
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Got context from element 'vaapisink0': gst.vaapi.Display=context,
gst.vaapi.Display=(GstVaapiDisplay)"\(GstVaapiDisplayWayland\)\
vaapidisplaywayland1";
Redistribute latency...
Got context from element 'playsink': gst.vaapi.Display=context,
gst.vaapi.Display=(GstVaapiDisplay)"\(GstVaapiDisplayWayland\)\
vaapidisplaywayland1";
Redistribute latency...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstPulseSinkClock
wl_surface@7: error 2: Failed to create a texture for surface 7
ERROR: from element
/GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstPlaySink:playsink/GstBin:vbin/GstVaapiSink:vaapisink0:
Internal error: could not render surface
Additional debug info:
../../../gst/vaapi/gstvaapisink.c(1482): gst_vaapisink_show_frame_unlocked ():
/GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstPlaySink:playsink/GstBin:vbin/GstVaapiSink:vaapisink0
Execution ended after 0:00:00.000574388
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...
Both work without errors in X11. I think VAAPI itself is OK, because
vainfo works, and so does mpv, provided I use this config:
opengl-backend=wayland
vo=opengl
hwdec=vaapi
I also tried to make green-recorder (an alternative front-end for
GNOME's screencast feature) use vaapiv8enc and the system completely
froze. I don't know if that has the same underlying cause.
This machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 4th Gen with an Intel
Skylake GPU.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gstreamer1.0-vaapi depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-17
ii libdrm2 2.4.82-1
ii libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11] 17.1.5-1
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 17.1.5-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.53.6-1
ii libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 1.12.2-1+b1
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.12.2-1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.12.2-1
ii libudev1 234-2.3
ii libva-drm1 1.8.3-1
ii libva-wayland1 1.8.3-1
ii libva-x11-1 1.8.3-1
ii libva1 1.8.3-1
ii libwayland-client0 1.14.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
gstreamer1.0-vaapi recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gstreamer1.0-vaapi suggests:
pn gstreamer1.0-vaapi-doc <none>
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.26.8-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package gstreamer-vaapi has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1126656
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
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