Can't figure out how to make ffmpeg encode with vaapi

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@rabcor

What’s going wrong?

VAEntrypointVLD means that your card is capable to decode this format, VAEntrypointEncSlice means that you can encode to this format.
Hardware video acceleration - ArchWiki

Maybe this helps:

Vulkan & video acceleration broken after update

I’ve been with ATI/AMD since 2001, i don’t think they are going to pay for a such a license. Things have improved apparently: https://mesa-freeworld.github.io/mesa-nonfree/ Packages are now pre compiled and you can even add it as an unofficial repository. sudo pacman-key --recv-keys B728DB23B92CB01B && sudo pacman-key --lsign-key B728DB23B92CB01B sudo sh -c "curl -s https://mesa-freeworld.github.io/mesa-nonfree/$(pacman-mirrors -G)/ > /etc/pacman.d/mesa-nonfree.pre.repo.conf" sudo sed -i…