Issue with libva-intel-drive 2.4.0

[mrwiwi]

Just to let anyone know, if you're using an Intel HD Graphics card (Mine is the one integrated to an i5 4300u CPU on a thinkpad x240), you will have serious issues with that driver (Host System almost unresponsive, 1fps top...), solution is to downgrade it to 2.3.0 version, no issue at all again :)

[nrvx]

Just to let anyone know, if you're using an Intel HD Graphics card (Mine is the one integrated to an i5 4300u CPU on a thinkpad x240), you will have serious issues with that driver (Host System almost unresponsive, 1fps top...), solution is to downgrade it to 2.3.0 version, no issue at all again :)

Thank you for your information, downgrading to 2.3.0 did the trick for my 4300m. :)

[mrwiwi]

For debiian, it's the i965-intel-driver version 2.3.0, for reference.

[mrwiwi]

Just to let anyone know, if you're using an Intel HD Graphics card (Mine is the one integrated to an i5 4300u CPU on a thinkpad x240), you will have serious issues with that driver (Host System almost unresponsive, 1fps top...), solution is to downgrade it to 2.3.0 version, no issue at all again :)

Thank you for your information, downgrading to 2.3.0 did the trick for my 4300m. :)

Just to know, did you succeed in making x265 stream working ? On windows it exit after a few seconds, on linux it's doesn't seems to work, even with hybrid driver for haswell.

[aarnoud]

does vainforeturns HEVC results ?

[mrwiwi]

does vainforeturns HEVC results ?

Nope, only VP8 and h264... :(

[NicolasGuilloux]

Hello! Do you mind pasting the vainfo of both version so that we can compare please? Thanks :D

[nrvx]

I don't have any results for HEVC in vainfo, so I didn't even tried making an x265 stream working...

But, for your information, I'm not using the beta version because it's closing itself with a "unknown error" after a few minutes (error: L-100). (I don't have any problem running the official .AppImage since I installed the beta and downgrade my drivers.)

I don't know if it can be of any help, but here is the vainfo for my system. It is exactly the same for the 2.4.0 and 2.3.0 version:

vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.7.1) vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Haswell Mobile - 2.3.0 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD

vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.7.1) vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Haswell Mobile - 2.4.0 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD

[aarnoud]

HEVC/H265 won't work if not supported and reported back by vainfo, x265 (as software decoding) isn't supported by Shadow only hardware. Don't worry about official appimage of Shadow, it's in fact a legacy version kept for compatibility until better solutions are found. The version to use on linux and that is being iterated on is Beta, and you should be able to also use Alpha.

[jbcayrou]

Hi,

I have the same issue on my Thinkpad X230 (on Arch Linux). The shadow client did not work correctly with libva-intel-driver version 2.4 (the image returned is not clear and blocked, all the system freezes) With libva-intel-driver in version 2.3.0 all work well !

Workaround (Arch Linux) :

Downgrade the version of libva-intel-driver

wget http://archlinux.arkena.net/archive/packages/l/libva-intel-driver/libva-intel-driver-2.3.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
sudo pacman -U libva-intel-driver-2.3.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  

My Hardware

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
• Intel HD Graphics 4000

vainfo: VA-API version: 1.9 (libva 2.9.1)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile - 2.3.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264StereoHigh         : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD