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

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Wojciech Kuranowski
<wojciech at kuranowski.pl> wrote:
> Yes, VDPAU acceleration fails with the latest package [xbmc with Anton's patch compiled against libav]. But it's a bit
> better than before, because I have one example of working movie which
> was not working with previous libav based xbmc packages. All other
> tested movies fails with VDPAU. But everything works fine with ffmpeg
> based xbmc.

Can you provide samples of movies that do work and those that don't work?

I've also CC'ed Anton from Libav, who kindly provided patches and
suggestions in the context of this bug.

>
> This is my card:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce
> GTX 650] (rev a1)
>
> Driver:
> nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64            340.46-1
>
> How can I help?

We need to find out why some videos break and others work so that the
problem can be identified and fixed in the code.

Thanks,
Reinhard