Bug#847701: kodi: Movie player unusable with libva error

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2016-12-10 19:21:20, Leandro Noferini wrote:
> Package: kodi
> Version: 2:17.0~beta5+dfsg1-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
>    Trying to see any kind of movie, and also youtube plugin, the movie
>    is terribly slowed down and desynchronized with audio. The movies are
>    on nfs share and they works well with orlder version of kodi
> 
>    In the kodi.log I found these lines I think relevant, at the
>    beginning:
>    
>    18:58:37 T:140267164256000   ERROR: VAAPI::CheckSuccess error: unknown libva error
>    18:58:37 T:140267164256000  NOTICE: VAAPI::Close
> 
>    And these more times during the show:
> 
>    18:58:42 T:140267164256000 WARNING: CRenderManager::WaitForBuffer - timeout waiting for buffer
>    18:58:46 T:140266988660480 WARNING: Previous line repeats 2 times.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
>    I tried to use another rendering engine but I have an intel video
>    card so I think I have to use vaapi. By the way nothing changes with
>    another engine.
> 
>    This is my video card:
> 
>    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor
>    D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if
>    00 [VGA controller])
>            Subsystem: Intel Corporation Atom Processor
> 	   D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
> 	   Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
> 	   Memory at e0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>            I/O ports at 20c0 [size=8]
>            Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>            Memory at e0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
> 	   [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>            Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>            Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>            Kernel driver in use: i915
>            Kernel modules: i915

I don't think that your GPU is supported by i965-va-driver. So using the VA API
rendering engine won't work for you.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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