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Mageia 8 on an aging MacBook Pro

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.10.0
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

Forgot to mention I am using the nouveau drivers on the nvidia video card.

Needed to add to .bashrc
export GST_VAAPI_ALL_DRIVERS=1