libs: utils: return NULL if failed to get surface formats

Thus, when generating the allowed caps, the element will throw a
warning and it will use its caps template.

This behavior might be a bug in the VA driver.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775490

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gst-libs/gst/vaapi/gstvaapiutils_core.c b/gst-libs/gst/vaapi/gstvaapiutils_core.c
index 42ebaff1..e1e76b81 100644
--- a/gst-libs/gst/vaapi/gstvaapiutils_core.c
+++ b/gst-libs/gst/vaapi/gstvaapiutils_core.c
@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ gst_vaapi_get_surface_formats (GstVaapiDisplay * display, VAConfigID config)
     g_array_append_val (formats, fmt);
   }
 
+  if (formats->len == 0) {
+    g_array_unref (formats);
+    formats = NULL;
+  }
+
   g_free (surface_attribs);
   return formats;
 
@@ -149,5 +154,4 @@ error:
   }
 #endif
   return NULL;
-
 }