This also affects OBS Studio (focal package obs-studio), which fails to record using VAAPI hardware encoding due to this bug.
Workaround: Start obs with the LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME environment variable set to the driver matching your Intel hardware, e.g. the following for my Intel Skylake CPU. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 obs ** Also affects: libva via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956281 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: obs-studio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libva in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872875 Title: [Focal] Intel libva va_openDriver() returns -1 (VA-API broken) Status in Libva: Unknown Status in libva package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in obs-studio package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu 20.04 System selects wrong intel driver (iris_drv_video.so). Therefore cannot use vaapi hardware decoding vainfo: libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iris_drv_video.so libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libva/+bug/1872875/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
