diff --git a/DOCS/interface-changes.rst b/DOCS/interface-changes.rst
index 08641b046a..4a21d3ba5c 100644
--- a/DOCS/interface-changes.rst
+++ b/DOCS/interface-changes.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Interface changes
     - add `dolbyvision` sub-parameter to `format` video filter
     - `--sub-visibility` no longer has any effect on secondary subtitles
     - add `film-grain` sub-parameter to `format` video filter
-    - add experimental `--vo=vaapi-wayland` video output driver
+    - add experimental `--vo=dmabuf-wayland` video output driver
     - add `--x11-present` for controlling whether to use xorg's present extension
     - add `engine` option to the `rubberband` audio filter to support the new
       engine introduced in rubberband 3.0.0. Defaults to `finer` (new engine).
diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
index 11e5cd732d..ed55dbfeae 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ Video
     :videotoolbox: requires ``--vo=gpu`` (macOS 10.8 and up),
                    or ``--vo=libmpv`` (iOS 9.0 and up)
     :videotoolbox-copy: copies video back into system RAM (macOS 10.8 or iOS 9.0 and up)
-    :vaapi:     requires ``--vo=gpu``, ``--vo=vaapi`` or ``--vo=vaapi-wayland`` (Linux only)
+    :vaapi:     requires ``--vo=gpu``, ``--vo=vaapi`` or ``--vo=dmabuf-wayland`` (Linux only)
     :vaapi-copy: copies video back into system RAM (Linux with some GPUs only)
     :nvdec:     requires ``--vo=gpu`` (Any platform CUDA is available)
     :nvdec-copy: copies video back to system RAM (Any platform CUDA is available)
diff --git a/DOCS/man/vo.rst b/DOCS/man/vo.rst
index c71ebd4c45..06e80c4ea2 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/vo.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/vo.rst
@@ -286,12 +286,13 @@ Available video output drivers are:
     ``--sdl-switch-mode``
         Instruct SDL to switch the monitor video mode when going fullscreen.
 
-``vaapi-wayland``
-    Experimental Wayland output driver designed for use with VA API hardware decoding.
-    The driver is designed to avoid any GPU to CPU copies, and to perform scaling and
-    color space conversion using fixed-function hardware, if available,
-    rather than GPU shaders. This frees up GPU resources for other tasks.
-    Currently this driver is experimental and only works with the ``--hwdec=vaapi`` driver;
+``dmabuf-wayland``
+    Experimental Wayland output driver designed for use with either drm stateless
+    or VA API hardware decoding. The driver is designed to avoid any GPU to CPU copies,
+    and to perform scaling and color space conversion using fixed-function hardware,
+    if available, rather than GPU shaders. This frees up GPU resources for other tasks.
+    Currently this driver is experimental and only works with the ``--hwdec=vaapi``
+    or ``hwdec=drm`` drivers;
     OSD is also not supported. Supported compositors : Weston and Sway.
 
 ``vaapi``
diff --git a/ci/build-freebsd.sh b/ci/build-freebsd.sh
index 3f1ed6a455..2a7d2f1813 100755
--- a/ci/build-freebsd.sh
+++ b/ci/build-freebsd.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ meson build \
     -Dopenal=enabled \
     -Dsdl2=enabled \
     -Dsndio=enabled \
-    -Dvaapi-wayland=enabled \
+    -Ddmabuf-wayland=enabled \
     -Dvdpau=enabled \
     -Dvulkan=enabled \
     -Doss-audio=enabled \
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ python3 ./waf configure \
     --enable-openal \
     --enable-sdl2 \
     --enable-sndio \
-    --enable-vaapi-wayland \
+    --enable-dmabuf-wayland \
     --enable-vdpau \
     --enable-vulkan \
     --enable-oss-audio \
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index c3b8c256c5..629e374a66 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1375,11 +1375,6 @@ if features['vaapi-wayland']
     dependencies += vaapi_wayland
 endif
 
-features += {'vaapi-wayland-memfd': features['vaapi-wayland'] and features['memfd_create']}
-if features['vaapi-wayland-memfd']
-    sources += files('video/out/vo_vaapi_wayland.c')
-endif
-
 vaapi_x11 = dependency('libva-x11', version: '>= 1.1.0', required: get_option('vaapi-x11'))
 features += {'vaapi-x11': features['vaapi'] and features['x11'] and vaapi_x11.found()}
 if features['vaapi-x11']
diff --git a/video/out/vo.c b/video/out/vo.c
index f4ecd3d7bf..4e999d0754 100644
--- a/video/out/vo.c
+++ b/video/out/vo.c
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ extern const struct vo_driver video_out_drm;
 extern const struct vo_driver video_out_direct3d;
 extern const struct vo_driver video_out_sdl;
 extern const struct vo_driver video_out_vaapi;
-extern const struct vo_driver video_out_vaapi_wayland;
 extern const struct vo_driver video_out_dmabuf_wayland;
 extern const struct vo_driver video_out_wlshm;
 extern const struct vo_driver video_out_rpi;
@@ -97,9 +96,6 @@ const struct vo_driver *const video_out_drivers[] =
 #if HAVE_DMABUF_WAYLAND
     &video_out_dmabuf_wayland,
 #endif
-#if HAVE_VAAPI_WAYLAND
-    &video_out_vaapi_wayland,
-#endif
 #if HAVE_VAAPI_X11 && HAVE_GPL
     &video_out_vaapi,
 #endif
diff --git a/video/out/vo_vaapi_wayland.c b/video/out/vo_vaapi_wayland.c
deleted file mode 100644
index ad88d50e55..0000000000
--- a/video/out/vo_vaapi_wayland.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,393 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * This file is part of mpv video player.
- *
- * mpv is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * mpv is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with mpv.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-
-#include <fcntl.h>
-#include <sys/mman.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
-#include <va/va_wayland.h>
-#include <va/va_drmcommon.h>
-
-#include "present_sync.h"
-#include "sub/osd.h"
-#include "video/vaapi.h"
-#include "wayland_common.h"
-
-#include "generated/wayland/linux-dmabuf-unstable-v1.h"
-#include "generated/wayland/viewporter.h"
-
-#define VA_POOL_NUM_ALLOCATED_INIT 30
-
-struct va_pool_entry {
-    /* key */
-    VASurfaceID surface;
-
-    VADRMPRIMESurfaceDescriptor desc;
-    struct wl_buffer *buffer;
-    struct zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1 *params;
-    uint32_t drm_format;
-};
-
-struct va_pool {
-    struct vo *vo;
-    struct va_pool_entry **entries;
-    int num_entries;
-    int num_allocated;
-};
-
-struct priv {
-    struct vo *vo;
-    struct mp_rect src;
-    struct mp_rect dst;
-    struct mp_osd_res osd;
-    struct mp_log *log;
-
-    VADisplay display;
-    struct mp_vaapi_ctx *mpvaapi;
-    struct wl_shm_pool *solid_buffer_pool;
-    struct wl_buffer *solid_buffer;
-    struct va_pool *va_pool;
-};
-
-static void va_close_surface_descriptor(VADRMPRIMESurfaceDescriptor desc)
-{
-    for (int i = 0; i < desc.num_objects; i++) {
-        close(desc.objects[i].fd);
-        desc.objects[i].fd = 0;
-    }
-}
-
-static void va_free_entry(struct va_pool_entry *entry)
-{
-    if (!entry)
-        return;
-    va_close_surface_descriptor(entry->desc);
-    if (entry->buffer)
-        wl_buffer_destroy(entry->buffer);
-    if (entry->params)
-        zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1_destroy(entry->params);
-    talloc_free(entry);
-}
-
-static VAStatus va_export_surface_handle(VADisplay display, VASurfaceID surface,
-                                         VADRMPRIMESurfaceDescriptor *desc)
-{
-    return vaExportSurfaceHandle(display, surface,
-                                 VA_SURFACE_ATTRIB_MEM_TYPE_DRM_PRIME_2,
-                                 VA_EXPORT_SURFACE_COMPOSED_LAYERS |
-                                 VA_EXPORT_SURFACE_READ_ONLY,
-                                 desc);
-}
-
-static struct va_pool_entry *va_alloc_entry(struct vo *vo, struct mp_image *src)
-{
-    struct priv *p = vo->priv;
-    struct vo_wayland_state *wl = vo->wl;
-    VAStatus status;
-    struct va_pool_entry *entry = talloc(NULL, struct va_pool_entry);
-    memset(entry, 0, sizeof(struct va_pool_entry));
-
-    /* extract dmabuf surface descriptor */
-    entry->surface = va_surface_id(src);
-    status = va_export_surface_handle(p->display, entry->surface, &entry->desc);
-    if (status == VA_STATUS_ERROR_INVALID_SURFACE) {
-        MP_VERBOSE(vo, "VA export to composed layers not supported.\n");
-        va_free_entry(entry);
-        return NULL;
-    } else if (!vo_wayland_supported_format(vo, entry->desc.layers[0].drm_format)) {
-        MP_VERBOSE(vo, "%s is not supported.\n",
-                   mp_tag_str(entry->desc.layers[0].drm_format));
-        va_free_entry(entry);
-        return NULL;
-    } else if (!CHECK_VA_STATUS(vo, "vaExportSurfaceHandle()")) {
-        va_free_entry(entry);
-        return NULL;
-    } else {
-        int i, j, plane = 0;
-
-        entry->params = zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1_create_params(wl->dmabuf);
-        for (i = 0; i < entry->desc.num_layers; i++) {
-            entry->drm_format = entry->desc.layers[i].drm_format;
-            for (j = 0; j < entry->desc.layers[i].num_planes; ++j) {
-                int object = entry->desc.layers[i].object_index[j];
-                uint64_t modifier = entry->desc.objects[object].drm_format_modifier;
-                zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1_add(entry->params,
-                                               entry->desc.objects[object].fd, plane++,
-                                               entry->desc.layers[i].offset[j],
-                                               entry->desc.layers[i].pitch[j],
-                                               modifier >> 32,
-                                               modifier & 0xffffffff);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    entry->buffer = zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1_create_immed(entry->params,
-                                                            src->params.w,
-                                                            src->params.h,
-                                                            entry->drm_format, 0);
-
-    return entry;
-}
-static void va_pool_clean(struct va_pool *pool)
-{
-    if (!pool)
-        return;
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < pool->num_entries; ++i)
-        va_free_entry(pool->entries[i]);
-    pool->num_entries = 0;
-}
-
-static void va_pool_free(struct va_pool *pool)
-{
-    if (!pool)
-        return;
-
-    va_pool_clean(pool);
-    talloc_free(pool);
-}
-
-static struct va_pool *va_pool_alloc(struct vo *vo)
-{
-    struct va_pool *pool = talloc(NULL, struct va_pool);
-    memset(pool, 0, sizeof(struct va_pool));
-    pool->num_allocated = VA_POOL_NUM_ALLOCATED_INIT;
-    pool->entries = talloc_array(pool, struct va_pool_entry *, pool->num_allocated);
-    memset(pool->entries, 0, pool->num_allocated * sizeof(struct va_pool_entry *));
-    pool->vo = vo;
-
-    return pool;
-}
-
-static struct va_pool_entry *va_pool_alloc_entry(struct vo *vo, struct va_pool *pool,
-                                                 struct mp_image *src)
-{
-    VASurfaceID surface;
-
-    if (!pool)
-        return NULL;
-
-    surface = va_surface_id(src);
-    for (int i = 0; i < pool->num_entries; ++i) {
-        struct va_pool_entry *item = pool->entries[i];
-        if (item->surface == surface)
-            return pool->entries[i];
-    }
-
-    struct va_pool_entry *entry = va_alloc_entry(pool->vo, src);
-    if (!entry)
-        return NULL;
-
-    if (pool->num_entries == pool->num_allocated) {
-        int current_num_allocated = pool->num_allocated;
-        pool->num_allocated *= 2;
-        pool->entries = talloc_realloc(pool, pool->entries, struct va_pool_entry *,
-                                       pool->num_allocated);
-        for (int i = current_num_allocated; i < pool->num_allocated; ++i)
-            pool->entries[i] = NULL;
-    }
-    pool->entries[pool->num_entries++] = entry;
-
-    return entry;
-}
-
-static void uninit(struct vo *vo)
-{
-    struct priv *p = vo->priv;
-
-    va_pool_free(p->va_pool);
-
-    if (p->solid_buffer_pool)
-        wl_shm_pool_destroy(p->solid_buffer_pool);
-    if (p->solid_buffer)
-        wl_buffer_destroy(p->solid_buffer);
-
-    vo_wayland_uninit(vo);
-
-    if (vo->hwdec_devs) {
-        hwdec_devices_remove(vo->hwdec_devs, &p->mpvaapi->hwctx);
-        hwdec_devices_destroy(vo->hwdec_devs);
-    }
-    if (p->mpvaapi)
-        va_destroy(p->mpvaapi);
-}
-
-static int preinit(struct vo *vo)
-{
-    struct priv *p = vo->priv;
-
-    p->vo = vo;
-    p->log = vo->log;
-    if (!vo_wayland_init(vo))
-        return VO_ERROR;
-
-    p->display = vaGetDisplayWl(vo->wl->display);
-    if (!p->display) {
-        MP_ERR(vo, "Unable to get the VA Display.\n");
-        return VO_ERROR;
-    }
-
-    p->mpvaapi = va_initialize(p->display, p->log, false);
-    if (!p->mpvaapi) {
-        vaTerminate(p->display);
-        p->display = NULL;
-        goto fail;
-    }
-
-    vo->hwdec_devs = hwdec_devices_create();
-    hwdec_devices_add(vo->hwdec_devs, &p->mpvaapi->hwctx);
-    p->va_pool = va_pool_alloc(vo);
-
-    return 0;
-
-fail:
-    uninit(vo);
-
-    return VO_ERROR;
-}
-
-static int query_format(struct vo *vo, int format)
-{
-    return format == IMGFMT_VAAPI;
-}
-
-static int reconfig(struct vo *vo, struct mp_image_params *params)
-{
-    struct priv *p = vo->priv;
-    struct vo_wayland_state *wl = vo->wl;
-
-    if (!p->solid_buffer_pool) {
-        int width = 1;
-        int height = 1;
-        int stride = MP_ALIGN_UP(width * 4, 16);
-        int fd = vo_wayland_allocate_memfd(vo, stride);
-        if (fd < 0)
-            return VO_ERROR;
-        p->solid_buffer_pool = wl_shm_create_pool(wl->shm, fd, height * stride);
-        if (!p->solid_buffer_pool)
-            return VO_ERROR;
-        p->solid_buffer = wl_shm_pool_create_buffer(p->solid_buffer_pool, 0,
-                                                    width, height, stride,
-                                                    WL_SHM_FORMAT_XRGB8888);
-        if (!p->solid_buffer)
-            return VO_ERROR;
-        wl_surface_attach(wl->surface, p->solid_buffer, 0, 0);
-    }
-
-    if (!vo_wayland_reconfig(vo))
-        return VO_ERROR;
-
-    return 0;
-}
-
-static int resize(struct vo *vo)
-{
-    struct vo_wayland_state *wl = vo->wl;
-    struct priv *p = vo->priv;
-
-    vo_wayland_set_opaque_region(wl, 0);
-    const int width = wl->scaling * mp_rect_w(wl->geometry);
-    const int height = wl->scaling * mp_rect_h(wl->geometry);
-    vo->dwidth = width;
-    vo->dheight = height;
-    vo_get_src_dst_rects(vo, &p->src, &p->dst, &p->osd);
-
-    wp_viewport_set_destination(wl->viewport,
-                                (p->dst.x0 << 1) + mp_rect_w(p->dst),
-                                (p->dst.y0 << 1) + mp_rect_h(p->dst));
-    wp_viewport_set_destination(wl->video_viewport, mp_rect_w(p->dst),
-                                mp_rect_h(p->dst));
-    wl_subsurface_set_position(wl->video_subsurface, p->dst.x0, p->dst.y0);
-
-    vo->want_redraw = true;
-
-    return VO_TRUE;
-}
-
-static int control(struct vo *vo, uint32_t request, void *data)
-{
-    struct priv *p = vo->priv;
-    int events = 0;
-    int ret;
-
-    switch (request) {
-    /* need to clean pool after seek to avoid artifacts */
-    case VOCTRL_RESET:
-        va_pool_clean(p->va_pool);
-        break;
-    default:
-        break;
-    }
-    ret = vo_wayland_control(vo, &events, request, data);
-    if (events & VO_EVENT_RESIZE)
-        ret = resize(vo);
-    if (events & VO_EVENT_EXPOSE)
-        vo->want_redraw = true;
-    vo_event(vo, events);
-
-    return ret;
-}
-
-static void draw_frame(struct vo *vo, struct vo_frame *frame)
-{
-    struct priv *p = vo->priv;
-    struct vo_wayland_state *wl = vo->wl;
-
-    if (!vo_wayland_check_visible(vo))
-        return;
-
-    struct va_pool_entry *entry = va_pool_alloc_entry(vo, p->va_pool,
-                                                      frame->current);
-    if (!entry)
-        return;
-
-    wl_surface_attach(wl->video_surface, entry->buffer, 0, 0);
-    wl_surface_damage_buffer(wl->video_surface, 0, 0, INT32_MAX, INT32_MAX);
-    wl_surface_commit(wl->video_surface);
-    wl_surface_commit(wl->surface);
-
-    if (!wl->opts->disable_vsync)
-        vo_wayland_wait_frame(wl);
-    if (wl->use_present)
-        present_sync_swap(wl->present);
-}
-static void flip_page(struct vo *vo)
-{
-    /* no-op */
-}
-
-static void get_vsync(struct vo *vo, struct vo_vsync_info *info)
-{
-    struct vo_wayland_state *wl = vo->wl;
-    if (wl->use_present)
-        present_sync_get_info(wl->present, info);
-}
-
-const struct vo_driver video_out_vaapi_wayland = {
-    .description = "VA API with Wayland video output",
-    .name = "vaapi-wayland",
-    .preinit = preinit,
-    .query_format = query_format,
-    .reconfig = reconfig,
-    .control = control,
-    .draw_frame = draw_frame,
-    .flip_page = flip_page,
-    .get_vsync = get_vsync,
-    .wakeup = vo_wayland_wakeup,
-    .wait_events = vo_wayland_wait_events,
-    .uninit = uninit,
-    .priv_size = sizeof(struct priv)
-};
diff --git a/video/out/wayland_common.c b/video/out/wayland_common.c
index 8a9158e2b1..ba2fba7f78 100644
--- a/video/out/wayland_common.c
+++ b/video/out/wayland_common.c
@@ -1491,9 +1491,9 @@ static int set_screensaver_inhibitor(struct vo_wayland_state *wl, int state)
 
 static void set_surface_scaling(struct vo_wayland_state *wl)
 {
-    bool vaapi_wayland = !strcmp(wl->vo->driver->name, "vaapi-wayland");
+    bool dmabuf_wayland = !strcmp(wl->vo->driver->name, "dmabuf-wayland");
     int old_scale = wl->scaling;
-    if (wl->vo_opts->hidpi_window_scale && !vaapi_wayland) {
+    if (wl->vo_opts->hidpi_window_scale && !dmabuf_wayland) {
         wl->scaling = wl->current_output->scale;
     } else {
         wl->scaling = 1;
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index a9f3927eaa..22abd31314 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -664,11 +664,6 @@ video_output_features = [
         'desc': 'VAAPI (Wayland support)',
         'deps': 'vaapi && gl-wayland',
         'func': check_pkg_config('libva-wayland', '>= 1.1.0'),
-    }, {
-        'deps': 'vaapi-wayland && memfd_create',
-        'name': 'vaapi-wayland-memfd',
-        'desc': 'Wayland vaapi support',
-        'func': check_true,
     }, {
         'name': 'dmabuf-wayland',
         'desc': 'Wayland dmabuf support',
diff --git a/wscript_build.py b/wscript_build.py
index 7588ed7e47..16c8cf0895 100644
--- a/wscript_build.py
+++ b/wscript_build.py
@@ -527,7 +527,6 @@ def build(ctx):
         ( "video/out/vo_sixel.c",                "sixel" ),
         ( "video/out/vo_tct.c" ),
         ( "video/out/vo_vaapi.c",                "vaapi-x11 && gpl" ),
-        ( "video/out/vo_vaapi_wayland.c",        "vaapi-wayland-memfd"  ),
         ( "video/out/vo_dmabuf_wayland.c",       "dmabuf-wayland"  ),
         ( "video/out/vo_vdpau.c",                "vdpau" ),
         ( "video/out/vo_wlshm.c",                "wayland && memfd_create" ),