How to set up Vaapi for video acceleration

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This is the current state of info from ''VAINFO"
which drivers are to be installed to get hardware video acceleration working in a fresh install…??

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Welcome to openSUSE Forums. Can you share your graphics hardware details?

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That might help others to advise further.

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Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-3
    code: Volcanic Islands process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:98e4
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Quanta VGA WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-4:3 chip-ID: 0408:a031
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: 0x0001
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.1
    compositor: gnome-shell v: 44.1 driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x07cb built: 2018 res: 1920x1080
    dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 23.0.3 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (stoney LLVM
    16.0.4 DRM 3.52 6.3.4-1-default) direct-render: Yes
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Actually I was able to fix the issue by adding the Pakman repo and installing codecs from there…

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