@ChuckPA Intel QSV is what I am trying to use but inside a VM where VMware creates its own device as renderD128 and the i915 is created as renderD129
lspci | grep VGA
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3 Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
You need passthrough and not a VMware -generated device name. If the kernel can detect a difference then you’ve found the problem. It should not show as a 'VMware adapter".
Looking at as much of the v3 line as I can, I can’t tell if that chip has QSV or not. It appears most don’t.
I am curious why HW transcoding using a Xeon v3 is in a Pi/Arm v7 thread. Perhaps a new thread is in order?
True, I did say in my first post it was a little off topic 
