Bug#742896: Blank screen on all videos with VDPAU and nVidia card

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi,

2014-06-13 22:31 GMT+02:00 Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu>:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-06-05 11:40 GMT+02:00 Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu>:
>> Hi Juho,
>>
>> 2014-05-31 23:57 GMT+07:00 hetas <hetas4 at gmail.com>:
>>> I get a blank screen on all video using vdpau, audio only, with nVidia
>>> GeForce GT 220. So no video even with mpeg2. Works fine when hardware
>>> acceleration is disabled from the settings.
>> Yes, VDPAU is broken in 13.x, see. #742896. :-(
> Well, that is this bug. :-)
>> VAAPI probably would work for you, try installing vdpau-va-driver. See #750199.
> I hoped debugging this bug on an old PC of mine but it turned out the
> video card in it does not support VDPAU.
>
> I need a VDPAU compatible video card or someone debugging this to move
> this bug further. :-(
I just found this bug report:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40246
Does removing config files from XBMC 12 solve the problem?

If it does not please build the two versions of XBMC (Libav/FFmpeg) from
http://people.debian.org/~rbalint/xbmc-gcov/ and try to play the same file
using each of them. Please try to make the exact same steps on each versions.
After the runs each build directory will contain *.gcda and *.gcno files.

Please compress the whole content of the build directories including
the newly created files and upload them somewhere where I can access
them. Gcov can generate coverage information from the newly created
files and we may be able to figure out the difference in using VDPAU
with FFmpeg and Libav.

Thanks,
Balint