Important Information

Provide following Information:

• mpv version: 0.33.1
• Linux Distribution and Version: Archlinux
• Source of the mpv binary: Archlinux repository
• Window Manager and version: sway 0.16
• GPU driver and version: Intel Tiger Lake, Mesa 21.0

Reproduction steps

1. Have a device with CUDA installed, but no Nvidia GPU present and a device that supports hwdec=vaapi
2. Launch mpv on any video with hwdec=vaapi.

Expected behavior

Video plays instantly using the device that supports vaapi.

Actual behavior

Video starts playing using the vaapi device after a delay of 10 seconds. Log shows that it gets stuck trying to initialize cuda-nvdec.

Log file

https://0x0.st/-mPB.txt