NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.8 Introduces New Direct Backend

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.8 Introduces New Direct Backend

Introduced at the start of the year was an experimental open-source project implementing the VA-API interface over NVIDIA's NVDEC video decoding API. In turn this VA-API support for running atop NVIDIA's proprietary Linux graphics driver allows for GPU video acceleration within Firefox and other software only targeting the Video Acceleration API. Now in closing out the year is a new NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver release...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver-0.0.8

[elFarto]

That should be

NVD_BACKEND=direct

to enable the direct backend.

[Monsterovich]

mpv freezes when I try to play a video. https://pastebin.com/evRvppZr
The direct backend doesn't work either. All video frames in mpv are green: https://pastebin.com/XthKdtKR

I have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.

[KingFaris10]

mpv freezes when I try to play a video. https://pastebin.com/evRvppZr
The direct backend doesn't work either. All video frames in mpv are green: https://pastebin.com/XthKdtKR

I have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.

Could be a related fix: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-va...b3630f4833aaa5