From: Bryan Steele <brynet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: chatty libva
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:42:33 -0400

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 04:37:53PM +0000, Andrew Christopher Hawk wrote:
> Bryan Steele wrote:
> > I don't think so, it's [the libva warning message situation] really useful
> > to tell if it's working, and for intel users, might be the only indication
> > theh need to install packages to make it work, e.g: intel-{vaapi,media}-driver.
> I agree.?? Troubleshooting audio issues can be a real pain, and I think that
> having reasonably verbose messages reduces the pain by possibly indicating
> the causes of such audio issues.

libva / VA-API are hardware video decoding/encoding, not audio.