Bug#761165: vlc: segmentation fault with VDPAU

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 21 octobre 2014, 02:13:00 Arthur Marsh a écrit :
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.2.0~pre4-1+b1
> Followup-For: Bug #761165
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate
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> 
> See also bug report 766058.
> 
> After running vlc under valgrind both with default options and with
> helgrind, I found the video terminated at the 9 second mark with default
> options but continued playing back very slowly with the helgrind option,
> which someone in #radeon in IRC suggested was a thread race condition in
> vlc.

The helgrind log there suggests a race condition in the Mesa VDPAU´s internal 
buffer object management to me.

And please don´t use VLC with Bellagio. The only tested software decoder is 
libav(codec).

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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