Bug#761165: vlc: segmentation fault with VDPAU

[Arthur Marsh]

Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote, on 20/10/14 19:39:
> Le 2014-10-20 11:57, Arthur Marsh a écrit :
>> I may be able to get permission from the publisher to release perhaps the
>> 15 seconds of video from the DVD.
>
> I'm more concerned about the specific driver and hardware than the
> specific DVD.
>
> And that error, while it does not explain the crash, is most definitely
> a driver bug:
>
>> [00007fffbc001268] vdpau_display vout display error: bitmap surface
>> creation failure: The size of a supplied object does not match the
>> object it is being used with.      For example, a VdpVideoMixer is
>> configured to process VdpVideoSurface objects of a specific size.
>> If presented with a VdpVideoSurface of a different size, this error
>> will be raised.
>
> That error code makes absolutely no sense in this context.
>

OK, I've run vlc under valgrind and reported the problem as:

Bug#766058 (mesa-vdpau-drivers: vlc crash with Radeon 3850HD)

Thanks for your help!

Arthur.