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Summary

Configure LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH and bundle hardware VA-API driver packages (mesa, intel-media-driver, and intel-vaapi-driver) in the Nix package wrapper and devShell.

On Linux, OpenScreen prefers VA-API for hardware video encoding before Vulkan or software fallback (libopenh264). However, in isolated Nix environments:

1. libva fails to locate graphics drivers when running on NixOS hosts where Intel media drivers are not explicitly installed in hardware.graphics.extraPackages, or on non-NixOS Linux distros without FHS driver paths in LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH.
2. When VA-API fails, screen recording falls back to CPU software encoding, which drops frames on high-resolution/high-framerate captures (e.g. 4K@60) and can cause timeouts upon stopping capture.

This change:

• Includes mesa (for AMD/Nouveau/VirtIO) and conditionally includes intel-media-driver (iHD, Gen 9+ / Broadwell to Arrow/Lunar Lake) and intel-vaapi-driver (i965) for x86_64-linux.
• Gates Intel driver evaluations behind stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64 so aarch64-linux evaluations do not fail on x86-only driver derivations.
• Suffixes LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH in makeWrapper and devShells with /run/opengl-driver/lib/dri, the bundled driver paths, and /usr/lib/dri / /usr/lib64/dri fallbacks.

Related issue

N/A

Type of change

• Bug fix
• Feature
• Enhancement
• Documentation
• Refactor / maintenance
• Performance
• Security

Release impact

• Patch
• Minor
• Major / breaking change
• No release note needed

Desktop impact

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux
• Installer / packaging
• Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

N/A (Nix packaging environment configuration)

Testing

• Verified nix flake check --no-build passes.
• Verified cross-system evaluation passes on both x86_64-linux and aarch64-linux:
  • nix eval .#packages.x86_64-linux.openscreen.drvPath
  • nix eval .#packages.aarch64-linux.openscreen.drvPath
  • nix eval .#devShells.aarch64-linux.default.drvPath
• Tested capture runtime via nix run .: confirmed VA-API encoder successfully selected ({"video":"vaapi","rejected":[]}) with hardware encoding on Intel GPU.
• Verified npx tsc --noEmit, npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit, and npm run lint pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Improved VA-API driver discovery for video acceleration on x86_64 systems.

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📝 Walkthrough

The Nix package and development shell now configure LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH with Mesa, Intel drivers on x86_64, and system DRI directories. The package receives optional Intel media and VA-API driver inputs.

Changes: VA-API driver discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Driver inputs and search paths flake.nix, nix/package.nix	The package receives Intel driver inputs on x86_64 and builds a VA-API search path. The Electron wrapper and development shell add Mesa, Intel, and system DRI directories to LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• getopenscreen/openscreen issue 1357 reports VA-API initialization errors during Linux capture. This change configures VA-API driver discovery in Nix environments.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to caaa4

Developers using a custom VA-API driver directory may lose hardware acceleration in the development shell. Preserve that path when setting the shell defaults; this is a bounded developer-workflow risk.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: configuring VA-API driver paths for hardware acceleration in Nix.
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Review comments at @flake.nix:
- Line 140: Update the development shell’s LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH assignment to
prepend its existing driver directories while preserving the incoming
LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH value, following the package wrapper’s path-composition
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