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Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

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> This should be the Intel 4500 integrated gpu, which is part of
> the i915/i965 family. It needs:
>
> - an intel kernel module

According to `lsmod | grep '^i'` I have `i915` loaded.  Is that the one?

> - X11 running the intel video driver

Interesting.  I was using the `modesetting` driver.
So I installed `xserver-xorg-video-intel` and then put

    % cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    Section "Device"
            Identifier      "Intel Corporation 965GM"
            Driver          "intel"
    EndSection
    % 

to force Xorg to use that `intel` driver (since apparently by default
nowadays it tries only `vesa`, `fbdev`, and `modestting`).

The end result appears to be the same, tho :-(
At least, all the error messages I get are the same.

> - libva-drm2
> - libva-x11-2
> - libva2
> - i965-va-driver

Check!

> It will support MPEG2 accelerated decoding but not H264, H265 or
> any of the newer codecs -- and Youtube may not be supplying old
> codecs these days.

That might be part of the problem, indeed.
Tho the `vainfo` failure suggests that even MPEG2 isn't working.

I tried to view an MPEG2 video with totem/xine/mplayer and that didn't
work either (it doesn't eat up all the CPU, instead they just "sit
there", sometimes emitting the same kind of VA errors as shown earlier).


        Stefan

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Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-21 01:00 +0100
  Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-21 05:00 +0100
    Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-21 15:30 +0100
  Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-01-21 16:40 +0100
    Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-21 18:20 +0100
      Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-01-21 18:40 +0100
        Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-21 23:00 +0100
          Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-01-22 12:40 +0100
            Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-23 17:30 +0100
              Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-01-23 18:50 +0100
                Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-23 22:30 +0100
                Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-23 22:40 +0100
                Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-25 16:00 +0100
                Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-26 01:20 +0100
                Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-26 04:10 +0100
  Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2024-01-21 19:30 +0100
  Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-01-21 22:30 +0100
    Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-22 04:30 +0100

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