How can I tell if I have VAAPI working?

[GabrielSerealia]

I'm running Neko in an LXC on Proxmox. I've got the /dev/dri mounted to LXC and the docker instance and I have the env var for VAAPI configured.

I'd like to know if there's a way I can check if the hardware encoding is working.

version: "3.4" services: neko: image: "m1k1o/neko:latest" restart: "unless-stopped" shm_size: "2gb" volumes: - ./policies.json:/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/policies.json - /dev/dri:/dev/dri ports: - "8080:8080" - "52000-52100:52000-52100/udp" privileged: true environment: NEKO_SCREEN: '1920X1080@60' NEKO_PASSWORD: XXXXXXXX NEKO_PASSWORD_ADMIN: XXXXXXXX NEKO_EPR: 52000-52100 NEKO_HWENC: VAAPI

[m1k1o]

If you have set NEKO_HWENC=VAAPI what you have, an neko is not failing with:

PNC unable to create video pipeline error="no element \"vaapih264enc\"" module=remote

So it should be working.

Adding - /dev/dri:/dev/dri as devices should be sufficient, no privileged: true needed.

[GabrielSerealia]

Sorry are you saying the config file is correct? Or that I should change "NEKO_HWENC: VAAPI" to "NEKO_HWENC=VAAPI"? The reason I'm asking is because if I don't have - /dev/dri:/dev/dri neko still seems to launch?

[m1k1o]

You either have them all as map with key: value or list with key=value, that is docker-compose yaml spec.

[GabrielSerealia]

Ah, that's what you mean. Thanks!

[GabrielSerealia]

If you have set NEKO_HWENC=VAAPI what you have, an neko is not failing with:

PNC unable to create video pipeline error="no element \"vaapih264enc\"" module=remote

So it should be working.

Adding - /dev/dri:/dev/dri as devices should be sufficient, no privileged: true needed.

So I tried removing the /dev/dri:/dev/dri line in the compose file but neko still seems to run without issue? Are you sure it would spit out that error message if hardware encoding was configured incorrectly?