Hardware decoding stopped working for Linux users on 2.13.0 (Fedora 44
report): every source decodes in software, and AV1 plays black video with
audio. Two defects in the pinned libmpv build.
First, mpv's meson 'drm' feature silently disabled itself because the CI
builder lacks libdisplay-info, and every VAAPI path that does not depend
on a display server is derived from it: vaapi-copy's standalone render-node
device (the path 2.12.1 worked on) and the GL dmabuf interop for direct
vaapi. With only the Wayland VA provider compiled in, a machine whose
Wayland VA display fails to initialize has no fallback, and vaapi-copy
has an empty provider list - every source lands on software decoding.
Pin -Ddrm=enabled, -Dvaapi-drm=enabled, -Degl=enabled and
-Dvaapi-wayland=enabled, and add libdisplay-info-dev to the CI package
lists, so a missing piece fails the build instead of shipping silent
software decode.
Second, the bundled static FFmpeg has no AV1 software decoder: its native
av1 codec is hardware-accelerated only, so once hwdec fails there is no AV1
path at all - every packet errors, video hits EOF, the plane goes black
while audio keeps playing. Pin dav1d 1.5.4 (both VideoLAN remotes agree on
the tag object and root commit), build it static before ffmpeg, and pass
--enable-libdav1d.
The build-plan stub test now asserts the hwdec feature flags, the dav1d
static build, and ffmpeg's libdav1d. Verified in an ubuntu:24.04 container
with the production flag sets: meson reports drm, vaapi-drm, vaapi-wayland,
egl and dmabuf-interop-gl enabled, and ffmpeg configures CONFIG_LIBDAV1D=yes
with the AV1 VAAPI hwaccel.
close#1874
The plane added three runtime libraries that bundle-libs.sh deliberately does not
bundle, so they have to be declared per distro by hand - and two hand-maintained
lists drifting apart is the failure this guard exists to prevent.
check_linux_package_deps.py parses the runner's CMake for every pkg-config module
it links, follows target_link_libraries to prove each one actually reaches the
binary, and requires a package name for it in every distro's depends list. It
fails closed on the shapes a naive parser gets wrong: a pkg_check_modules call
naming several modules, options preceding the module name, and version
constraints like mpv>=0.40 that would otherwise be read as a package nobody
ships.
The smoke job builds the three packages and reads the dependencies back out of
the artifacts, deriving what to expect from build-packages.py rather than
restating it - so a library is declared once and verified everywhere. That job is
off by default, which is exactly why it must not carry its own copy of the list.
The Linux native job names libwayland-dev and libegl-dev instead of riding
GTK's and epoxy's transitive dev dependencies, matching the CMake comment's own
rationale. In CI the host-dependency guard runs once: the named step covers the
staged bundle, and build-packages.py's internal run - which exists for by-hand
packaging - is skipped. The smoke job also drops patchelf, which nothing
invokes.
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