(In reply to 247 from comment #3) > and to answer your question, yes it was perfectly working in fedora 25... You can try to bisect mesa. >From the logs you attached I could not see anything abivous. Do you really want hardware decoding btw ? Also does gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=test.mp4 ! qtdemux ! h264parse ! vaapih264dec ! videoconvert ! xvimagesink And what is the output of vainfo ? (just install vainfo package)