Talk: VLC not exposing VA-API as a hardware acceleration option

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

Please see the Common Issue for solution/workarounds:

VLC not exposing VA-API as a hardware acceleration option

Problem In Fedora 39, when running VLC, the option to use VA-API for hardware acceleration is unavailable, as shown in the screenshot below. This happens even if proprietary codecs are installed. [image] This is a notable change from prior releases (where VLC wasn’t available in Fedora, but could be installed from third-party repositories). Cause Since Fedora 39, VLC is in Fedora main repositories. However, the current VLC version 3.0 requires an old FFmpeg (version 4) in order for VA-API…