diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 9157dc6e3..876f34f4e 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
           inherit compositor-view pipewire-helper whisper-stt;
           openscreen = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/package.nix {
             inherit compositor-view pipewire-helper whisper-stt;
+            intel-media-driver =
+              if pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64 then pkgs.intel-media-driver else null;
+            intel-vaapi-driver =
+              if pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64 then pkgs.intel-vaapi-driver else null;
           };
           default = self.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.openscreen;
         }
@@ -132,6 +136,17 @@
             ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD = "1";
             ELECTRON_OVERRIDE_DIST_PATH = "${electron}/bin";
 
+            # VA-API driver paths for hardware video acceleration (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA)
+            LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH = "/run/opengl-driver/lib/dri:${
+              pkgs.lib.makeSearchPath "lib/dri" (
+                [ pkgs.mesa ]
+                ++ pkgs.lib.optionals pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64 [
+                  pkgs.intel-media-driver
+                  pkgs.intel-vaapi-driver
+                ]
+              )
+            }:/usr/lib/dri:/usr/lib64/dri:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri";
+
             # Playwright browser path for test:browser / test:e2e
             PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH = "${pkgs.playwright-driver.browsers}";
             PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD = "1";
diff --git a/nix/package.nix b/nix/package.nix
index 255d4f922..93b0204fa 100644
--- a/nix/package.nix
+++ b/nix/package.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   lib,
+  stdenv,
   buildNpmPackage,
   nodejs_22,
   electron,
@@ -7,6 +8,9 @@
   compositor-view,
   pipewire-helper,
   whisper-stt,
+  mesa,
+  intel-media-driver ? null,
+  intel-vaapi-driver ? null,
   makeWrapper,
   makeDesktopItem,
   copyDesktopItems,
@@ -21,6 +25,20 @@ let
   # fault, not a packaging shortcut"; the same standard applies here. The only
   # invocation is a decode to raw PCM, so dropping GPL costs nothing.
   ffmpegLgpl = ffmpeg-headless.override { withGPL = false; };
+
+  # VA-API driver search path for hardware video acceleration (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA).
+  # Nix provides drivers in isolated store paths, while NixOS provides them at
+  # /run/opengl-driver/lib/dri and non-NixOS distributions provide them in /usr/lib/dri.
+  # Bundling mesa and Intel drivers (on x86) guarantees VA-API works out-of-the-box.
+  vaDriversPath = lib.makeSearchPath "lib/dri" (
+    [ mesa ]
+    ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64 (
+      lib.filter (d: d != null) [
+        intel-media-driver
+        intel-vaapi-driver
+      ]
+    )
+  );
 in
 buildNpmPackage {
   nodejs = nodejs_22;
@@ -119,6 +137,7 @@ buildNpmPackage {
     makeWrapper "${electron}/bin/electron" "$out/bin/openscreen" \
       --add-flags "$out/lib/openscreen" \
       --set ELECTRON_IS_DEV 0 \
+      --suffix LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH : "/run/opengl-driver/lib/dri:${vaDriversPath}:/usr/lib/dri:/usr/lib64/dri:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri" \
       --set OPENSCREEN_FFMPEG_PATH "${ffmpegLgpl}/bin/ffmpeg" \
       --set OPENSCREEN_COMPOSITOR_VIEW_NODE "${compositor-view}/lib/compositor_view.node" \
       --set OPENSCREEN_LINUX_CURSOR_HELPER_EXE "${lib.getExe pipewire-helper}" \