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vo=gpu is the preferred choice in any case and includes VA-API support via hwdec=vaapi or vaapi-copy.

Running mpv --vo=vaapi

[vaapi] libva: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[vaapi] Failed to initialize VAAPI: unknown libva error
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (--vo) device.
Video: no video

@solarkraft: thanks for comment. I checked the conflict between intel-gpu-tools and libva-intel-driver-g45-h264 (which in the past really existed) and conflict between files exist no more, so i removed intel-gpu-tools from conflicts=() array.

intel-gpu-tools and libva-intel-driver-g45-h264 are in conflict :/ How do they conflict? No way around this?

@aviallon GM965 =/= gm45

@aviallon rebuild this package with newest libva, maybe it help

Hello, has anyone had success with this iGPU and va-api ?

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Compaq 6710b
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at e4300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=8]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
                Address: 00000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
                Bridge: PM- B3+
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915, intelfb

Sadly, vainfo is not happy, and I can't find why on the internet.

$ vainfo
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

Any help (including saying it just doesn't work with this particular GPU or go see in this other place) is appreciated.

for me smplayer with mpv is not working in either normal or experimental version. But at least experimental ones don't hang my gpu.. the only thing is that doesn't do the job but not break all the system as the normal ones.

[ffmpeg/video] h264: Hardware does not offer any usable surface formats. it's my problem that has the output of mpv. Vo vaapi and vaapi with and without copy. It doesn't mind.

@MaheshWiz you have my same old laptop, but mines has t6700 I think.

My advice is to use smplayer with mpv that is a lot better than VLC and has less overhead using vaapi. VLC is a lot worse than mpv for vaapi accelerated video. On the other hand, thanks for the update too. It was needed for so many old computers!

MPV works using --vo=vaapi