Bug 6482

Summary:	Proposal: Add VAAPI hardware acceleration to Multimedia post install chapter
Product:	Infrastructure	Reporter:	Mershl <mweires>
Component:	Websites	Assignee:	Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	lxtnow, matthias, sergio
Priority:	P1
Version:	NA
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Mershl 2022-11-13 14:58:38 CET

With F37 dropping VC1, h264 and h265 VAAPI acceleration from the official mesa package there is now a need for a lot of Fedora users using any GPU vendor (previously only Nvidia and Intel) to install the approriate acceleration binaries.

As rpmfusion provides packages for all three vendors some sort of the following could be added to the Multimedia chapter of the Configuration site.

Intel:
`sudo dnf install intel-media-driver`

AMD and Nvidia Open Source (nouveau):
`sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld`

Nvidia Closed Source (nvidia):
`sudo dnf install mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld`


As a side note: The dnf swap of -va-drivers is now commonly passed around in forums and chats. Isn't it actually a problem only replacing the -va-drivers to -freeworld as upstream might do a major mesa update before rpm-fusion resulting in a situation where e.g. mesa being on 23.0 while -va-drivers-freeworld is still on the last 22.something release?

Comment 1 Mershl 2022-11-13 15:01:12 CET

Remark:
On Silverblue the `dnf swap` counterpart is: `rpm-ostree override remove mesa-va-drivers --install mesa-va-drivers-freeworld` (tested myself, works as expected)

Comment 2 Nicolas Chauvet 2022-11-17 16:15:03 CET

Updated https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

Thanks