GStreamer based VAAPI encoder implementation. Taken out of the GStreamer OBS plugin as a standalone plugin. Simply because the FFMPEG VAAPI implementation shows performance bottlenecks on some AMD hardware.
Supports H.264, H.265 and AV1.
Note that not all options in the encoder properties may be working. VAAPI is just an interface and it is up to the GPU hardware and driver what is actually supported. Not all options make sense to change.
One option is to copy the plugin to the current user's OBS plugin directory:
~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-vaapi/bin/64bit/obs-vaapi.so
VAEntrypointEncSlice
entry points.$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.16.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_16
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.16 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 22.3.0 for AMD Radeon RX 6600 (navi23, LLVM 15.0.6, DRM 3.48, 6.0.0-6-amd64)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice ←
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice ←
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice ←
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice ←
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice ←
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileAV1Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
$ gst-inspect-1.0 va
Plugin Details:
Name va
Description VA-API codecs plugin
Filename /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstva.so
Version 1.22.0
License LGPL
Source module gst-plugins-bad
Documentation https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/va/
Source release date 2023-01-23
Binary package GStreamer Bad Plugins (Debian)
Origin URL https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gst-plugins-bad1.0
vaav1dec: VA-API AV1 Decoder
vacompositor: VA-API Video Compositor
vadeinterlace: VA-API Deinterlacer
vah264dec: VA-API H.264 Decoder
vah264enc: VA-API H.264 Encoder ←
vah265dec: VA-API H.265 Decoder
vah265enc: VA-API H.265 Encoder ←
vajpegdec: VA-API JPEG Decoder
vampeg2dec: VA-API Mpeg2 Decoder
vapostproc: VA-API Video Postprocessor ←
vavp9dec: VA-API VP9 Decoder
11 features:
+-- 11 elements
meson setup --buildtype=release build
meson install -C build