On 6/20/24 00:13, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
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so, may be after whole setup was verified to function correctly at least in bare ffmpeg we can iterate back to vaapi for creating  cingg profile  ? (if I understand correctly qsv adds additional layer/library on top of vaapi driver - not something I wish to deal with in appimage packaging ....)



Yes, Vaapi may also be of my interest next, when I (soon) have my legacy WS rebuild with working hw pieces, possibly also for my laptop with igpu.

I admit that I myself as a user have not yet a full overview over the HWA methods, software packages and drivers needed for each method.
So far reading the FFmpeg's HWAccel-Intro, Jellyfin pages, relevant Linux distro pages etc is an attempt.

What I have noticed is that

VA-API is an open-source library and API specification (originally developed by Intel) , which provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing. It consists of a main library and driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware vendor.

Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)
The Intel(R) Media Driver for VAAPI is a new VA-API (Video Acceleration API) user mode driver supporting hardware accelerated decoding, encoding, and video post processing for GEN based graphics hardware.
https://github.com/intel/libva?tab=readme-ov-file#libva-project
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/github.com/intel/media-driver/+/bb769be340e49ed5e2ba393c12e294380ef827f3/README.md


Regarding QSV on Arc GPU it looked for me at first as Intel had drivers and repositories only available for Ubuntu
https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/driver/client/overview.html

However, I myself have simply just  installed and used the current ffmpeg-7 prebuild thanks to the Packman Team, beside other related multimedia and codecs packages for openSUSE Tw Slowroll:

    inxi -GS
System:
  Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 6.9.5-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: GNOME v: 46.2 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll 20240605
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel DG2 [Arc A750] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Microdia Camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.12 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: i915 resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.0.8 renderer: Mesa Intel Arc
    A750 Graphics (DG2)
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.


zypper se -is ffmpeg vaapi libva vulkan intel qsv svt vpl
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S  | Name                      | Type    | Version                  | Arch   | Repository
---+---------------------------+---------+--------------------------+--------+-------------------------
i+ | ffmpeg-7                  | package | 7.0-1699.3.pm.7          | x86_64 | Packman
i+ | intel-cmt-cat             | package | 5.0.0.10.git+b26b31b-1.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i+ | intel-gpu-tools           | package | 1.28-3.4                 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i+ | intel-media-driver        | package | 24.1.3-1.2               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i+ | intel-opencl              | package | 24.13.29138.7-1.1        | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i+ | intel-SINIT               | package | 2.3-88.11                | noarch | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | intel-vaapi-driver        | package | 2.4.1-5.13               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | kernel-firmware-intel     | package | 20240618-1.1             | noarch | openSUSE-Slowroll-Update
i  | libdrm_intel1             | package | 2.4.121-1.1              | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libgstvulkan-1_0-0        | package | 1.24.0-4.1               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libheif-ffmpeg            | package | 1.17.6-1699.5.pm.9       | x86_64 | Packman
i  | libheif-svtenc            | package | 1.17.6-1699.5.pm.9       | x86_64 | Packman
i  | liblavplay-2_2-0          | package | 2.2.1-2.10               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libSvtAv1Dec0             | package | 2.1.0-1.1                | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libSvtAv1Enc2             | package | 2.1.0-1.1                | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libva-drm2                | package | 2.21.0-1.1               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libva-glx2                | package | 2.21.0-1.1               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libva-wayland2            | package | 2.21.0-1.1               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libva-x11-2               | package | 2.21.0-1.1               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libva2                    | package | 2.21.0-1.1               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libvpl2                   | package | 2.10.1-2.2               | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | libvulkan1                | package | 1.3.283.0-1.1            | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i+ | libvulkan_intel           | package | 24.0.8-1699.384.pm.1     | x86_64 | Packman
i+ | libze_intel_gpu1          | package | 24.13.29138.7-1.1        | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i  | Mesa-libva                | package | 24.0.8-1699.384.pm.1     | x86_64 | Packman
i+ | Mesa-vulkan-device-select | package | 24.0.8-1699.384.pm.1     | x86_64 | Packman
i+ | openvino-intel-cpu-plugin | package | 2024.1.0-1.1             | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i+ | SVT-AV1                   | package | 2.1.0-1.1                | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
i+ | ucode-intel               | package | 20240514-1.1             | x86_64 | openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss


 zypper info libva2 libvpl2
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Information for package libva2:
-------------------------------
Repository     : openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
Name           : libva2
Version        : 2.21.0-1.1
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : openSUSE
Installed Size : 187.2 KiB
Installed      : Yes (automatically)
Status         : up-to-date
Source package : libva-2.21.0-1.1.src
Upstream URL   : https://01.org/linuxmedia
Summary        : Video Acceleration API
Description    :
    The libva library implements the Video Acceleration API.
    The library loads a hardware dependendent driver.

    This is the core runtime library.


Information for package libvpl2:
--------------------------------
Repository     : openSUSE-Slowroll-Oss
Name           : libvpl2
Version        : 2.10.1-2.2
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : openSUSE
Installed Size : 353.0 KiB
Installed      : Yes (automatically)
Status         : up-to-date
Source package : libvpl-2.10.1-2.2.src
Upstream URL   : https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneVPL
Summary        : oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL) dispatcher
Description    :
    The oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL) provides a single video processing
    API for encode, decode, and video processing that works across a wide range of
    accelerators.