VLC fails to initialize due to unknown libva error

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That is removing the vdpau backend for vaapi.
I have no idea whether that makes sense on your system or not.
VLC is notorious for not implementing hardware acceleration nicely and having often-failing defaults.

Example here:

DE froze with graphic glitches... lots of kernel, drm, and amdgpu entries in journal

But … also … like I have mentioned before … What about, assuming you have HWAccel properly implemented in your system, setting VLC to use it, instead of relying on ‘automatic’ (which indicates a bug in vlc instead). You have an amdgpu like me, so it can do VAAPI or VDPAU … though I consider vdpau more ‘native’. VLC Preferences > Input/Codecs > Hardware-accelerated decoding Selection: VDPAU [image] VLC Preferences > Video > Output Selection: VDPAU [image] (again this is hardware/…