diff --git a/src/backend/vaapi/encoder.rs b/src/backend/vaapi/encoder.rs
index 3d90c5b2..b33c3071 100644
--- a/src/backend/vaapi/encoder.rs
+++ b/src/backend/vaapi/encoder.rs
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ const INITIAL_SCRATCH_POOL_SIZE: usize = 16;
 /// scratch frames.
 const MAX_SCRATCH_POOL_SIZE: usize = INITIAL_SCRATCH_POOL_SIZE * 4;
 
+impl From<libva::VaError> for StatelessBackendError {
+    fn from(value: libva::VaError) -> Self {
+        Self::Other(value.into())
+    }
+}
+
 pub struct Reconstructed(PooledVaSurface<()>);
 
 impl Reconstructed {
diff --git a/src/encoder/stateless/h264/vaapi.rs b/src/encoder/stateless/h264/vaapi.rs
index 35513a42..f1c8cc40 100644
--- a/src/encoder/stateless/h264/vaapi.rs
+++ b/src/encoder/stateless/h264/vaapi.rs
@@ -415,12 +415,6 @@ where
     }
 }
 
-impl From<libva::VaError> for StatelessBackendError {
-    fn from(value: libva::VaError) -> Self {
-        Self::Other(value.into())
-    }
-}
-
 impl<M, H> StatelessEncoder<H, VaapiBackend<M, H>>
 where
     M: SurfaceMemoryDescriptor,