Bug#774038: xbmc: When going fullscreen watching through xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts makes video stays black

[Bernhard Übelacker]

Hello Bálint Réczey,
thanks for your fast response.

One thing I am uncomfortable with my proposal is, if it would affect
people using some low spec computer which are not able to decode fast
enough in software and not having vdpau at all.

I will try to build a kodi package from your repo and report back.

Kind regards,
Bernhard


One think were I am undecided is, my proposal is to set set
software=true. But I don't know if then someone would still be able to
watch via xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts on e.g. on a raspberry

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:17:44 +0100 =?UTF-8?B?QsOhbGludCBSw6ljemV5?=
<balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 pending upstream confirmed
> 
> Bernhard,
> 
> 2014-12-27 22:07 GMT+01:00 Bernhard Ãœbelacker <bernhardu at vr-web.de>:
> > Package: xbmc
> > Version: 2:13.2+dfsg1-4
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > when playing with xbmc from current jessie with activated xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-
> > hts
> > from some satellite broadcasts I get only a black screen when switching from
> > windowed to fullscreen mode.
> >
> >
> > These are the circumstances which are relevant (as far as I think):
> > - using a VDPAU enabled graphics card with needed vdpau libraries installed
> > - having no .xbmc directory in home directory (just for reproducability)
> > - starting xbmc
> > - activating Tvheadend HTSP Client addon
> > - playing a broadcast through LiveTv in windowed mode (in my case no HD
> > channel)
> >   (plays fine in the partial screen with channels on the side as filling the
> > whole window too.)
> > - switching to fullscreen mode (e.g. altgr+backslash)
> > - video stays black, audio still playing, other menus and control elements also
> > visible.
> >
> >
> > I did some further investigations:
> ...
> > I opened it as important, but probably you want to increase it to serious if
> > you see fit.
> > If yes probably on way of action for jessie would be to add this "hint.software
> > = true;"
> > in DVDPlayer.cpp:3003 as it is already the case for DVD playback.
> 
> Thank you for the detailed investigation and the proposed fix. The fix
> will be included in the next upload.
> There is no need for increasing severity. I will ask for a freeze
> exception and I think Release Managers will approve it.
> 
> I also checked latest upstream code but the patched part has been
> removed and without the HW to test the change I'm not comfortable with
> adapting the patch.
> 
> I have packaged Kodi already [1] but it is waiting in the NEW queue
> right now. Could you please check if Kodi needs the fix, too and adapt
> the patch if needed?
> If you could upstream the Kodi fix yourself and ping me to back-port
> the fix I would be happy, too.
> 
> Cheers,
> Balint
> 
> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/kodi.git
> 
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