Ethan Blanton on Nostr: When I try to use hardware video encoding on my Intel ARC 380 with ffmpeg and VAAPI, ...
When I try to use hardware video encoding on my Intel ARC 380 with ffmpeg and VAAPI, it keeps hard locking the whole system. It seems like it might be related to the mouse cursor, but maybe that's a spurious association. I'm running Debian trixie with the backport kernel (6.18.12+deb13) and 20250410 Intel firmware. If anyone has ideas for making it stable, I'm listening. (I've also had occasional hangs with firefox and hardware media decode, so I disabled that!) #askfedi #vaapi #ffmpeg
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