[packman] Mesa VA-API driver does not contain AV1/VP9 codecs

[Masaru Nomiya]

Hello,

In the Message; 

  Subject    : [packman] Mesa VA-API driver does not contain AV1/VP9 codecs
  Message-ID : <CAAiN7opAwZfT0vQ8uPmOd_kj0q9VWrs95zSY=xrPC9ZdzAiHYA at mail.gmail.com>
  Date & Time: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 02:15:27 +0300

[AR] == Alexey Rochev <equeim at gmail.com> has written:

AR>  Current Mesa packages (Mesa-libva-24.0.3-1699.372.pm.2.x86_64) do not
AR>  report AV1 or VP9 support. vainfo outputs:

AR>  Trying display: wayland
AR>  libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0
[...]
AR>       VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
AR>       VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
AR>       VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
AR>       VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
AR>       VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSlice
AR>       VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>       VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

Indeed, this means that VP9 encoding in VA-API is not supported, but
encoding in H.264 and HEVC is supported in VA-API.

Same result on my Intel laptop with Mesa provided by Tumbleweed;

Trying display: wayland
Trying display: x11
Not using hybrid_drv_video.so
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.20.1)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile - 2.4.1
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264StereoHigh         :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD

AR>  They are definitely supported by hardware, and official openSUSE
AR>  packages contain them:

AR>  Trying display: wayland
AR>  libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0
AR>  libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
AR>  libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20
AR>  libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
AR>  vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.20.1)
AR>  vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 24.0.3 for AMD Radeon RX
AR>  6700 XT (radeonsi, navi22, LLVM 18.1.2, DRM 3.57, 6.8.1-1-default)
AR>  vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
AR>      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>      VAProfileAV1Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
AR>      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc
[...]

Is this a partial excerpt?

And please show the results of vdpauinfo.

Regards.

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