#11664: ffmpeg can't allocate memory when using any vulkan hwaccel --------------------------------------+---------------------------------- Reporter: illy | Type: defect Status: new | Priority: normal Component: undetermined | Version: 7.1 Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Reproduced by developer: 0 Analyzed by developer: 0 | --------------------------------------+---------------------------------- Hardware used: Amd 5500U APU Version: ffmpeg 7.1.1 Summary of the bug: trying to use the vulkan mp4 codec, it fails with error {{{ Device creation failed: -12. Failed to set value 'vulkan=vk:0' for option 'init_hw_device': Cannot allocate memory Error parsing global options: Cannot allocate memory }}} How to reproduce: {{{ ffmpeg -init_hw_device "vulkan=vk:0" -hwaccel vulkan -hwaccel_output_format vulkan -i VID_XXXX.mp4 -crf 42 VID_XXXX-smaller.mp4 }}} output: {{{ ffmpeg version 7.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 11 (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) configuration: --prefix=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/ffmpeg/7.1.1_3 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --cc=gcc-11 --host- cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-ffplay --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-libaom --enable-libaribb24 --enable-libbluray --enable-libdav1d --enable-libharfbuzz --enable-libjxl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-librav1e --enable-librist --enable-librubberband --enable- libsnappy --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libsvtav1 --enable- libtesseract --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable- libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libspeex --enable-libsoxr --enable-libzmq --enable-libzimg --disable-libjack --disable-indev=jack libavutil 59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100 libavcodec 61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101 libavformat 61. 7.100 / 61. 7.100 libavdevice 61. 3.100 / 61. 3.100 libavfilter 10. 4.100 / 10. 4.100 libswscale 8. 3.100 / 8. 3.100 libswresample 5. 3.100 / 5. 3.100 libpostproc 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100 Splitting the commandline. Reading option '-v' ... matched as option 'v' (set logging level) with argument 'debug'. Reading option '-init_hw_device' ... matched as option 'init_hw_device' (initialise hardware device) with argument 'vulkan=vk:0'. Reading option '-hwaccel' ... matched as option 'hwaccel' (use HW accelerated decoding) with argument 'vulkan'. Reading option '-hwaccel_output_format' ... matched as option 'hwaccel_output_format' (select output format used with HW accelerated decoding) with argument 'vulkan'. Reading option '-i' ... matched as input url with argument 'VID_20250710_170316-FASTER.mp4'. Reading option '-crf' ... matched as AVOption 'crf' with argument '42'. Reading option 'VID_20250710_170316-FASTERERER.mp4' ... matched as output url. Finished splitting the commandline. Parsing a group of options: global . Applying option v (set logging level) with argument debug. Applying option init_hw_device (initialise hardware device) with argument vulkan=vk:0. Device creation failed: -12. Failed to set value 'vulkan=vk:0' for option 'init_hw_device': Cannot allocate memory Error parsing global options: Cannot allocate memory }}} -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11664> FFmpeg <https://ffmpeg.org> FFmpeg issue tracker