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Kodi Fails To Use VA-API Acceleration
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Relevance Score
A user reports on March 1, 2026 that Kodi on an older NVIDIA ION system using the nouveau driver no longer offers hardware acceleration. They say mesa removed VDPAU support, vainfo confirms VA-API is available, but Kodi logs show VDPAU initializing then falling back, and Kodi neither logs nor exposes VA-API as an option.
Scoring Rationale
Provides practical troubleshooting detail for Kodi/nouveau, limited by single-user report and narrow legacy-hardware scope, reducing generalizability.
Sources
- Read OriginalVA-API with Nouveau ?forum.kodi.tv
