Radeon acceleration broken in Snap packages for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Hi,

With VLC4 dev-23271-gdc397a76 installed from snap, hardware acceleration is not working. Wont Work with VDPAU, VA_API decoder device for X11. With install via APT it works fine. My GPU is from AMD.

libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /snap/vlc/x1/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /snap/vlc/x1/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
amdgpu: os_same_file_description couldn't determine if two DRM fds reference the same file description.
/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_radeonsi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_radeonsi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Edited Apr 15, 2023 by Rémi Denis-Courmont

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