Trying to enable VAAPI for FFmpeg to record screen with OBS

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I have a Radeon R9 270, and I also saw that video acceleration encoding is supported on my GPU (Southern Islands)

Saw where? That chipset uses the legacy radeon driver by default, it may not.

@lucaslinux

didn’t want to replace ffmpeg for ffmpeg-git because it said dependencies would be broken

Well, there would be no point as it does not use the --enable-vaapi build flag. However, the full versions in the AUR do.