Intel hardware video acceleration not working out of the box

[evenbecker]

Submission type

• Bug report
• Feature Request

vainfo returns -1, which means that the driver for VA-API support is not installed by default. I think it's a big problem for newbies who expect Hardware video acceleration to work out of the box (like in Ubuntu, Manjaro ...) In addition, KDE Plasma and Kwin use OpenGL and require Hardware video acceleration to avoid high CPU usage.
I have solved the problem by installing libva-intel-driver (AFAIK intel-media-driver is not available in KaOS). Then it works fine and vainfo returns the name of the driver (i965) and the supported codec (MPEG2, H264 ...).
It may be nice to briefly talk about libva-intel-driver in kaosx.us/docs/ Hardware Setup.

[demmm]

First of (not really what the feature request is about), media-driver is available:
https://kaosx.us/packages/view.php?name=main/media-driver-24.2.1-1

But to install it by default for all systems, not really a good way to do things, imo.
There are many things not installed by default, so yes, the new user is expected to do some reading in KaOS.
Your suggestion of adding a hardware sections to the docs would be excellent.
Anyone can contribute to the docs, just fork:
https://github.com/KaOSx/kaosx.github.io
and a new .md file to https://github.com/KaOSx/kaosx.github.io/tree/master/_docs, once done, open a merge request.

[evenbecker]

I have opened a pull request.