My laptop has a nvidia 840m geforce card. I’m trying to get hardware acceleration working for youtube on the browser.
As the cpu heats up.
After spending much time going through forums and guides. I found out that vdpau is not even enabled.
THe result of vdpauinfo. and vaainfo is bellow.
vdpauinfo
display: :1 screen: 0
GPU at BusId 0x1 doesn’t have a supported video decoder
Error creating VDPAU device: 1
vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.8.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
GPU at BusId 0x1 doesn’t have a supported video decoder
libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
Ubuntu 20.10