Issues

• Can't make this work with Google Chrome 157.0.8103.38 (Official Build) (x86_64) in X11

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#489 · Filter by author birdie-github opened on Nov 6, 2026

• Chromium/Brave 156: decoder created without errors on direct backend, but video is black / YouTube player doesn't render (RTX 3060, driver 580.178.04)

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#486 · Filter by author nico87 opened on Oct 31, 2026
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• direct: the resolving flag can be cleared before the CUDA copy into the backing image has finished

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#482 · Filter by author makoni opened on Oct 20, 2026

• Going Frame by Frame Causes YouTube Videos Encoded in AV1 to Stutter

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#475 · Filter by author bigjoe54321 opened on Oct 4, 2026

• 0.0.18: Chromium GPU process aborts on short videos (≤171-row surfaces): per-plane DRM modifiers differ since #448

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#474 · Filter by author ianneub opened on Oct 3, 2026

• Direct backend: unbounded wait on a surface's resolving flag blocks the calling thread for good

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#468 · Filter by author 60plus opened on Sep 26, 2026
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• Chromium: importExternalBackingToCuda fails (CUDA 999) when a decode context is re-created at the same size in the same VA instance after the previous context has been decoding

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#464 · Filter by author corruptnova opened on Sep 24, 2026
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• Hardware acceleration works but Youtube shows black screen

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#463 · Filter by author akontsevich opened on Sep 24, 2026
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• SIGSEGV in nvGetImage (nvidia_drv_video.so) with NVIDIA 615.71.09

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#459 · Filter by author veradim opened on Sep 14, 2026
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• Clarify package name

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#454 · Filter by author TechPro424 opened on Sep 8, 2026

• vaEndPicture internal decoding error with NVIDIA 610.43.02 on RTX 3080 (Arch/CachyOS, Wayland)

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#436 · Filter by author softyoda opened on Jun 12, 2026
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• Wayland Kodi VA-API Crash (eglSwapBuffers failed)

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#433 · Filter by author bnerickson opened on May 17, 2026
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• Chrome support - Clarify and Update

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#420 · Filter by author danilw opened on Jan 30, 2026
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• Video playback soft crashes using direct backend on Zen

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#418 · Filter by author ryanull24 opened on Jan 15, 2026
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• Impossible to get HW DECODE despite good output of vaapi

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#417 · Filter by author lukolszewski opened on Jan 11, 2026
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• NVD_GPU environment variable does not work on dual Nvidia GPU system

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#413 · Filter by author quiet23 opened on Dec 16, 2025

• CUDA_DISABLE_PERF_BOOST=1 is not actually equivalent to CUDA-Force P2 State = off

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#411 · Filter by author HanChinese-LIURUI opened on Dec 2, 2025
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• 940MX: no profile

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#408 · Filter by author drzraf opened on Nov 17, 2025

• Can't initialize VAAPI with the Vulkan Beta 580.94.06 driver

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#401 · Filter by author PvtNewb opened on Oct 30, 2025
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• Vesktop video playback bug

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#399 · Filter by author gre4kapi opened on Oct 11, 2025
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• fails to play hevc video converted to h264 in chromium

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#398 · Filter by author fxzzi opened on Sep 28, 2025

• Occasionally, nvidia-vaapi-driver doesn't initialize in Firefox

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#395 · Filter by author Lastique opened on Sep 17, 2025

• Broken on RTX 5060 Advanced Optimus

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#393 · Filter by author androidacy-user opened on Sep 14, 2025

• NVD_BACKEND=direct doesn't work

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#392 · Filter by author qaako opened on Sep 4, 2025
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• FEATURE_HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING_NO_LINUX_NVIDIA error in Firefox

  elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#391 · Filter by author Heliumrich opened on Aug 24, 2025
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