There are some va fixes lined up for mesa 11.0.5, which might be relevant.

Probably related to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/338

This still breaks VAAPI streaming to 16.04-1 LTS (because that's on i965-va-driver 1.7.0.) Same with the latest 1.7.1 from Intel's Graphics Driver Installer v2.0.2. As indicated above, forcing 14.04-2 LTS's v1.3.0 version of the i965-va-driver into 16.04-1 LTS re-enables VAAPI (but presumably isn't a very safe or stable solution - so I'll go back to 14.04.) Same on Steam Sept 6th 2016 beta.

Any updates?

Julie
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PS You're a star, petroid - how did you track down that it was an issue with steam's runtime libraries? :)

Actually, not my find. Forgot where I saw it though.
Deleting vaapi libs from steam runtime and installing them system-wide is best workaround I know so far.

This is still an issue. Workaround is to remove the libva files from steam and manually install them, as described on http://voltaicforge.com/linux/steam-vaapi-fix-linux/

@jimmyvh Seems that would not work, see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5339#issuecomment-433567154

Maybe this issue should be marked as duplicated of https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5339 ?

@jjardon It's depressing really, because that workaround DID work, but it simply no longer works from ubuntu 18.04 onwards (though not ubuntu specific, another user in that thread mentions the exact same issue after updating arch)

But you are correct, it should be marked as a duplicate. And when they do, -maybe- they should give some priority to a 3 year old issue that makes it increasingly hard (to nigh impossible right now) to use hardware acceleration with steam on intel.

Will this be resolved any time soon?