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

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi,

2014-10-13 23:46 GMT+02:00 Wojciech Kuranowski <wojciech at kuranowski.pl>:
> Yes, VDPAU acceleration fails with the latest package. 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.
>
> 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?
I suspect some codecs work but others don't. Please collect xbmc logs
while playing the working and not working files and attach them to the
bug.

Cheers,
Balint

>
>
> On 13 October 2014 15:21, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2014-10-08 21:57 GMT+02:00 Wojciech Kuranowski <wojciech at kuranowski.pl>:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I am using VDPAU on my NVIDIA card and latest working version was
>>> 2:13.2+dfsg1-2~exp1 based on ffmpeg libs. In current version
>>> 2:13.2+dfsg1-2 I have a blank video again.
>> VDPAU in 2:13.2+dfsg1-2 worked for Sebasian [1].
>>
>> Sebastian, did you use NVIDIA cards for testing, too?
>> Wojciech, are you sure VDPAU acceleration fails with the latest package?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Balint