[Pkg-xbmc-maintainers] Bug#742896: xbmc: Blank video with VDPAU enabled

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Sergej,

2014-03-28 17:27 GMT+01:00 Sergej Wildemann <wildemann at finf.uni-hannover.de>:
> Package: xbmc
> Version: 13.0~beta2+dfsg1-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I am using the radeon oss driver with latest mesa 10.1.0-4 to take advantage
> of VDPAU acceleration. This kind of worked with xbmc 12.3 with some tearing,
> but stopped working with an update to gotham. VDPAU also works fine through
> mpv.
> After enabling hardware acceleration in video settings, my x264 movies
> behave like audio files and do not show any output. The screen stays blank
> and the selected decoder shows as "ff-h264" in the info overlay.
> I also tried the latest OpenELEC which works as expected correctly shows
> "ff-h264-vdpau" as the decoder.
>
> The problem looks like this one:
> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=179796
Both mpv and xbmc 12.3 use Libav9 while xbmc 13 uses Libav 10.
If you don't find anything suspicious in ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log please reassign
this bug to libav 10.

Thanks,
Balint