| Summary: | Spectacle fails to record videos in the latest KDE Linux on NVIDIA hardware ("the requested VAProfile is not supported") | ||
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| Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] KPipeWire | Reporter: | Paul Brown <paul.brown> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | aleixpol, kde, nate |
| Priority: | HI | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | KDE Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
> [Parsed_scale_vaapi_1 @ 0x7f04880537c0] Failed to create processing pipeline config: 12 (the requested VAProfile is not supported).
This looks bad.
🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME. For more information about our bug triaging procedures, please read https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > > [Parsed_scale_vaapi_1 @ 0x7f04880537c0] Failed to create processing pipeline config: 12 (the requested VAProfile is not supported). > > This looks bad. Do you folks need any more info or have any advice? I received a message saying that it will be closed in 30 days if I do not provide more info, but I do not know what info you folks need. Nobody has confirmed this bug. Does that mean it is only affecting machine, i.e. it is not a bug at all but really defective hardware? Everything else seems to be working fine. |
SUMMARY Spectacle does not record videos on NVIDIA powered hardware on the latest few KDE Linux versions. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Record a screencast using Spectacle 2. Finish the recording OBSERVED RESULT Spectacle creates a file with the correct extension, but that just contains a few bytes of header information and no actual video. EXPECTED RESULT A complete video file. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE Linux 2025-12-07 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 Kernel Version: 6.17.9-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design ADDITIONAL INFORMATION When running from the command line and Spectacle configured to produce a WebM video, the output is this ``` $ spectacle Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8. Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead. If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual for more information. kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend] in use for device "/dev/dri/renderD128" [libvpx-vp9 @ 0x7fdf640618c0] v1.15.2 kf.kio.workers.file: copy() QUrl("file:///tmp/Spectacle.QkfELe/Screencast_20251208_121834.webm") to QUrl("file:///home/kde/Videos/Screencasts/Screencast_20251208_121834.webm") mode= -1 qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Using Qt multimedia with FFmpeg version n8.0.1 GPL version 3 or later [matroska,webm @ 0x7fdfac001f80] Duplicate element [matroska,webm @ 0x7fdfac001f80] 0x00 at pos 100 (0x64) invalid as first byte of an EBML number [matroska,webm @ 0x7fdfac001f80] Duplicate element [matroska,webm @ 0x7fdfac001f80] 0x00 at pos 167 (0xa7) invalid as first byte of an EBML number [matroska,webm @ 0x7fdfac001f80] Element at 0x5d ending at 0x1aec0100000066 exceeds containing master element ending at 0x1409 qt.multimedia.ffmpeg.mediadataholder: Could not open media. FFmpeg error description: End of file ``` When configured to record MP4, the output is this: ``` $ spectacle Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8. Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead. If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual for more information. spectacle: OCR is not available; language selector will remain empty. kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend] in use for device "/dev/dri/renderD128" [Parsed_scale_vaapi_1 @ 0x7f04880537c0] Failed to create processing pipeline config: 12 (the requested VAProfile is not supported). [Parsed_scale_vaapi_1 @ 0x7f04880537c0] Failed to configure output pad on Parsed_scale_vaapi_1 kpipewire_record_logging: Failed configuring filter graph [AVFilterGraph @ 0x7f0488f50800] No option name near 'limited' [AVFilterGraph @ 0x7f0488f50800] Error parsing a filter description around: [AVFilterGraph @ 0x7f0488f50800] Error parsing filterchain 'pad=ceil(iw/2)*2:ceil(ih/2)*2,scale=format=yuv420p,out_range=limited' around: kpipewire_record_logging: Failed creating filter graph [libx264 @ 0x7f0488054580] -qscale is ignored, -crf is recommended. [libx264 @ 0x7f0488054580] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX FMA3 BMI2 AVX2 [libx264 @ 0x7f0488054580] profile Main, level 6.0, 4:2:0, 8-bit kf.kio.workers.file: copy() QUrl("file:///tmp/Spectacle.KfPgnr/Screencast_20251208_122013.mp4") to QUrl("file:///home/kde/Videos/Screencasts/Screencast_20251208_122013.mp4") mode= -1 qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Using Qt multimedia with FFmpeg version n8.0.1 GPL version 3 or later Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/home/kde/Videos/Screencasts/Screencast_20251208_122013.mp4': Metadata: major_brand : isom minor_version : 512 compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41 encoder : Lavf62.3.100 Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A ``` I'm not sure this is helpful. I hope it is.