I just wanted to do a quick desktop recording, so I thought I’d install obs-studio 31.1.2-1. I’m on EOS/Cinnamon (X11) on a Thinkpad T14 Gen 1, and my VAAPI hardware acceleration usually works out ok.
Data:
inxi -Gaz
$ inxi -Gaz
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports:
active: HDMI-A-2,eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:9b41 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-8:8 chip-ID: 04f2:b6d0
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x286mm (40.00x11.26")
s-diag: 1055mm (41.55")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-2 pos: right model: HDP-V104
serial: <filter> built: 2018 res: N/A dpi: 123 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x195mm (13.54x7.68") diag: 790mm (31.1") modes: max: 4096x2160
min: 720x400
Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: primary,left model: BOE Display 0x07db built: 2018
res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 158 gamma: 1.2
size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.2.2-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
device-ID: 8086:9b41 memory: 14.92 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 layers: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 25.2.2-arch1.1
device-ID: 8086:9b41 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
vainfo
$ vainfo
Trying display: wayland
Trying display: x11
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 25.2.6 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointStats
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
pacman -Qs intel
$ pacman -Qs intel
local/ibus 1.5.32-1
Intelligent input bus for Linux/Unix
local/intel-gmmlib 22.8.1-1
Intel Graphics Memory Management Library
local/intel-media-driver 25.2.6-1
Intel Media Driver for VAAPI — Broadwell+ iGPUs
local/intel-ucode 20250812-1
Microcode update files for Intel CPUs
local/libva-intel-driver 2.4.1-5
VA-API implementation for Intel G45 and HD Graphics family
local/libva-utils 2.22.0-1
Intel VA-API Media Applications and Scripts for libva
local/libvpl 2.15.0-1
Intel Video Processing Library
local/linux-firmware-intel 20250808-1
Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for Intel devices
local/python-intelhex 2.3.0-8
Python library for Intel HEX files manipulations
local/vulkan-intel 1:25.2.2-1
Open-source Vulkan driver for Intel GPUs
Test recordings using ffmpeg work nicely:
H.264:
ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -f x11grab -i :0.0 -vcodec h264_vaapi -vf 'format=nv12|vaapi,hwupload' test.mp4
H.265:
$ ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -f x11grab -i :0.0 -vcodec hevc_vaapi -vf 'format=nv12|vaapi,hwupload' test2.mp4
5 hours later…
For the life of me, I can’t find out how to set parameters in OBS Studio correctly so it doesn’t crash or show errors in the log!
It shows the scene, but won’t record.
Tried a lot of settings, here’s one of them:
These are pretty much the default settings, I also experimented with other settings, but all errored out.
Results in:
OBS Log
00:13:14.637: ---------------------------------
00:13:14.637: [FFmpeg VAAPI encoder: 'advanced_video_recording'] settings:
00:13:14.637: device: /dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.0-render
00:13:14.637: rate_control: CBR
00:13:14.637: profile: 100
00:13:14.637: level: -99
00:13:14.637: qp: 0
00:13:14.637: bitrate: 2500
00:13:14.637: maxrate: 2500
00:13:14.637: keyint: 120
00:13:14.637: width: 1920
00:13:14.637: height: 1080
00:13:14.637: b-frames: 0
00:13:14.637: ffmpeg opts:
00:13:14.637:
00:13:14.639: [FFmpeg VAAPI encoder: 'advanced_video_recording'] Failed to open VAAPI codec: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler
00:14:25.270: Could not find accessible on path: "/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/2147484746"
00:14:25.272: Could not find accessible on path: "/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/2147484746"
00:14:25.272: Could not find accessible on path: "/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/2147484746"
00:14:25.272: Could not find accessible on path: "/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/2147484746"
00:14:25.272: Could not find accessible on path: "/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/2147484746"
00:14:25.273: Could not find accessible on path: "/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/2147484746"
Help?
Anyone here who has got OBS to work on a laptop with only Intel GPU?
I’m totally unsure where else to look. Is it an OBS problem or what… Maybe just some parameter wrong or missing?
I had an almost identical setting on my Linux Mint 21.3/Cinnamon desktop (older OBS version, though), and that just worked. So I didn’t really expect problems like these.
