Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > This should be the Intel 4500 integrated gpu, which is part of
> > the i915/i965 family. It needs:
> >
> > - an intel kernel module
>
> According to `lsmod | grep '^i'` I have `i915` loaded. Is that the one?
Yes.
> > - X11 running the intel video driver
>
> Interesting. I was using the `modesetting` driver.
> So I installed `xserver-xorg-video-intel` and then put
>
> % cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Intel Corporation 965GM"
> Driver "intel"
> EndSection
> %
>
> to force Xorg to use that `intel` driver (since apparently by default
> nowadays it tries only `vesa`, `fbdev`, and `modestting`).
Yup.
> > It will support MPEG2 accelerated decoding but not H264, H265 or
> > any of the newer codecs -- and Youtube may not be supplying old
> > codecs these days.
>
> That might be part of the problem, indeed.
> Tho the `vainfo` failure suggests that even MPEG2 isn't working.
>
> I tried to view an MPEG2 video with totem/xine/mplayer and that didn't
> work either (it doesn't eat up all the CPU, instead they just "sit
> there", sometimes emitting the same kind of VA errors as shown earlier).
Does mplayer give any more interesting errors?
-dsr-
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