AMD Vega (Ryzen 5 3550H) - v25.9.0 - VAAPI subtitle burning fails on channel playback but works in t

[slow patrol]

Error on channel playback:
[Parsed_overlay_vaapi_4] VAAPI driver doesn't support overlay

The troubleshooting tool uses smart fallback:

• 8-bit content: hwdownload → subtitles → hwupload → h264_vaapi
• 10-bit content: falls back to libx264

But channel playback always tries overlay_vaapi → fails on AMD

Same content, same profile, same subtitle... troubleshooting works, channel fails.

Could the channel playback pipeline use the same fallback logic as troubleshooting?

[dark barn]

are you using the right ffmpeg profile?

the one you selected for troubleshooting has hw accel none

did you actually confirm the failure in this version?

oh i see - if you left your vaapi driver as "default" it might not flag it as amd. select "radeonsi" when you enable hw accel in the ffmpeg profile

[slow patrol]

ye i am

[dark barn]

well hw accel is disabled on it

[slow patrol]

sending now for vaapi

[slow patrol]

just realized

[dark barn]

select radeonsi as the driver

it will work

[slow patrol]

ok..trying that

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[slow patrol]

worked ❤️ ty

[dark barn]