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?

  • @KickassWomenOPEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    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 ati

    • @KickassWomenOPEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      Replying 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.
      • @db2
        1•5 months ago
        sudo apt-get install --reinstall firmware-amd-graphics libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-vulkan-drivers xserver-xorg-video-all
        • @KickassWomenOPEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          Though 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”.

      • @s38b35M5English
        1•5 months ago
        --reinstall

        Or

        remove --purge