I’m using Debian 12, Ryzen 7 5700X processor, and Radeon HD 5450 graphics card. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling VLC but it didn’t resolve the issue. Here’s an excerpt from the VLC’s log file:
glconv_vaapi_x11 error: vaDeriveImage: operation failed
main error: video output creation failed
main error: failed to create video output
avcodec info: Using G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0 for hardware decoding
How do I resolve this issue?
I don’t know if it updated my video driver. I just used this command: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
it has logs that show what it did
Check /var/log/dpkg.log to be sure. Most modern systems use dkms to make it automatic, but you can try reinstalling the driver to be sure.
And also reboot if you haven’t already done that, to make sure your kernel and driver are the latest and loaded properly.
I have rebooted multiple times. How do I reinstall the driver for my Radeon HD 5450 graphics card?
I used this command to search through the dpkg.log but didn’t get any results for radeon or ati:
cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep -i atiReplying to my own post here. I tried to reinstall my video driver but the terminal messages I received essentially said that the files were already installed:
Jean-Luc@Enterprise:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-vulkan-drivers xserver-xorg-video-all Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done firmware-amd-graphics is already the newest version (20230210-5). libgl1-mesa-dri is already the newest version (22.3.6-1+deb12u1). libgl1-mesa-dri set to manually installed. libglx-mesa0 is already the newest version (22.3.6-1+deb12u1). libglx-mesa0 set to manually installed. mesa-vulkan-drivers is already the newest version (22.3.6-1+deb12u1). mesa-vulkan-drivers set to manually installed. xserver-xorg-video-all is already the newest version (1:7.7+23). xserver-xorg-video-all set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.--reinstallOr
remove --purgesudo apt-get install --reinstall firmware-amd-graphics libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-vulkan-drivers xserver-xorg-video-allThough my issue has been resolved I’ll try this and update this post afterwards
Edit:
I reinstalled the video drivers and rebooted twice to be sure but VLC wouldn’t play mp4 files unless I changed “Hardware-accelerated decoding” to “VA-API video decoder”.
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If you restart and put the setting back to how it was, and it still works, then that’s probably what happened.