VLC - libvdpau error with intel graphics

Question

I am using archlinux trying to connect to an RTSP stream on my local network (local IP camera) and am getting very hit-and-miss performance from VLC. Most of the time the connection runs just fine, but sometimes the connection freezes and I have to close and reopen to resume. Running from the terminal shows the following:

VLC media player 2.2.4 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.3-37-g888b7e89)
[0000000000bbf1f8] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[00007fa54800c618] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
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[00007fa54800c618] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

This is obviously a bit off as this is an intel laptop with no nvidia components. I cannot figure out where/why it is looking for nvidia files (or if it is even relevant to the problem)

Running grep -iE 'vdpau|dri driver' ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log yields:

[ 99171.065] (II) intel(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: i965
[ 99171.065] (II) intel(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: va_gl

Running vainfo yields:

libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.39 (libva 1.7.3)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile - 1.7.3
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

I've read the relevant arch wiki articles (I believe), but cannot get a stable connection. I have extra/libva, extra/libva-intel-driver, and extra/libva-vdpau-driver installed and this seems like it should do it... what am I missing?

As stupid as I may sound, have you [selected](https://hacklog.mu/content/images/2015/11/opensuse-vlc.png) "VA-API" in Input & Codecs settings dialog? — Dmitry Grigoryev, Mar 29 '17 at 16:06
I have it set to auto currently. I had tried the VDPAU and various VA-API options previously, but it's worth double checking. — sam, Mar 30 '17 at 21:08

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 30 '17 at 20:59

I don't have enough reputation to comment.

After making sure your video drivers are up to date, try checking if any of the packages provide the file VLC is complaining about: pacman -Qi libva libva-intel-driver libva-vdpau-driver | grep libvdpau_nvidia.so. As Dmitry commented, make sure VA-API is selected as the hardware accelerated decoding setting, or try setting that to Auto.

Additionally, can you play the same stream with another player, such as mplayer or mpv?

VLC - libvdpau error with intel graphics

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