Snap firefox build fails while Linux mint firefox build works

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A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC

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Snap firefox build fails while Linux mint firefox build works #249

Closed carsonip closed 10 months ago

carsonip commented 11 months ago

Creating this issue as a PSA.

OS: Linux Mint 21.2

I was previously using the firefox snap from Ubuntu on my Linux Mint. Firefox about:support showed vaapitest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection. while vainfo was all good. Figured it was something wrong with the snap build. Uninstalled the snap firefox and installed the stock firefox from Linux Mint and it is now all working!

Thanks for the great work.

elFarto commented 11 months ago

Yes, snap releases are unable to access this driver since it's outside of the snap. I should probably add something to the README about that.