Looks similar to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-vaapi/merge_requests/142 It is working fine with mesa 18.3.6 and st/va has not changed in 19.1: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/src/gallium/state_trackers/va?h=19.1 So the issues could be due to the recent changes in drivers/radeon, drivers/radeonsi or winsys/amdgpu, i.e. : https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/src/gallium/drivers/radeon?h=19.1 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi?h=19.1 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/src/gallium/winsys/amdgpu?h=19.1