There are at least 2 ways of using VAAPI without X11 (Wayland, DRM).
Remove the X11 requirement from the decoder part and the EGL interop.
This will be used by a following commit, which adds Wayland support.
The worst about this is the decoder part, which includes a bad hack for
using the decoder without any VO interop (also known as "vaapi-copy"
mode). Separate the X11 parts so that they're self-contained. For the
EGL interop code we do something similar (it's kept slightly simpler,
because it essentially only has to translate between our silly
MPGetNativeDisplay abstraction and the vaGetDisplay...() call).
Surfaces used by hardware decoding formats can be mapped exactly like a
specific software pixel format, e.g. RGBA or NV12. p->image_params is
supposed to be set to this format, but it wasn't.
(How did this ever work?)
Also, setting params->imgfmt in the hwdec interop drivers is pointless
and redundant. (Change them to asserts, because why not.)
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Niklas Haas