Bug#774038: xbmc: When going fullscreen watching through xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts makes video stays black

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Bernhard,

2015-01-16 23:47 GMT+01:00 Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu at vr-web.de>:
> Hello Bálint,
>
>> This kodi-14 stack is nearly equal to the stack of xbmc-13 when we call the VDPAU::CDecoder::FiniVDPAUOutput.
>> The difference starts in CWinSystemX11::SetFullScreen.
>> Will do some more testing, probably we need only to make a call to CWinSystemX11::SetWindow too ...
>
> Tried now if I could get the SetFullScreen/CDecoder::OnResetDevice from
> kodi into xbmc, but was not successfull on it (probably one with deeper
> knowledge could do ...).
>
> So in the end we have these options:
>
> - turn off xrandr: affecting every video usage of xbmc
>   (even affect non-binary-nvidia-driver users.)
Since I think this option does not have any other effect on XBMC's
usability I plan picking this one.
It is too late for Jessie because this bug is not an RC one, but I'll
update XBMC after the release and provide the fixed package in
jessie-backports as well.
Please report if you find any issue with xrandr disabled.

>
> - switch PVR to software decoding: just affecting PVR, but probably
>   problematic on devices not fast enough for software (raspberry?)
>
> - Let affected users change it via the confiruation interface:
>   (at least Settings level Advanced)
>    Settings - Video - Acceleration - Allow hardware acceleration (VDPAU)
>   (guisettings.xml:usevdpau=false)

Thank you for your help!

Cheers,
Balint