Libva 2.17.0 -- VLC Error when playing Videos

[mcdaniels]

Hi,
just one short question. The last update of libva to version 2.17.0 broke video-playback with vlc and mplayer.

I fixed it by downgrading to libva 2.16.0 (via command downgrade and getting the package from online storage). Cause this is not activated by default I did an:

export DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1
followed by a
downgrade libva

The error is (before downgrading):
Initialized libplacebo v5.229.0 (API v229)
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[00007f34e80093b0] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) vlc

My question to this is: Am I the only one, having this problem (I am not finding a lot on this / is there any sign that this may be fixed in near future?)

Thanks!

[jrichard326]

There was a discussion about this in the 1/24/2023 Stable Updates Announcement as well as here:

Videos won't play with VLC

For some reason after the last update videos just close with VLC. Started the media player in the Terminal and get some error with libva vlc VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) [00005575482945d0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [00005575483310d0] main playlist: playlist is empty [00007efcf80073f0] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v5.229.0 (API v229) libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown …

Besides downgrading libva, one of the suggestions was:
In VLC settings try changing the video output from automatic to VDPAU.

Preferences-Video -Display-Output

[whm1974]

This actually fixed the problem. Thanks.