Bug#813370: vlc: no video in h264 files

[Marc Bonnor]

I have this same issue on my computer. The gnome application called
Video plays my video file with out any problems, but with vlc the video
is blank/black and audio working fine.

Here is a sample of the output from terminal;

mabo at debian:~/Videos$ vlc Insiders\ 722016.mp4 
VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80)
[000000000101e158] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface.
Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
libva info: VA-API version 0.38.1
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[00007fa246c68968] avcodec decoder: Using OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale
backend for VDPAU for hardware decoding.
[h264 @ 0x7fa246cbfec0] hardware accelerator failed to decode picture

This last line repeats ...

On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:59:41 +0100 Leonardo Canducci <leonardo.canducci
@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.2.1-5+b2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> I got no video for h264 files (worked fine before). 
> Other info: gnome3, intel graphics 4600.
> 
> Steps to reproduce bug on my PC: Playing an h264 sample file such as:
> 
> http://download.openbricks.org/sample/H264/big_buck_bunny_480p_H264_A
AC_25fps_1800K_short.MP4
> 
> I get:
> 
> leo at asbesto:~$ vlc
Scaricati/big_buck_bunny_480p_H264_AAC_25fps_1800K_short.MP4 
> VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1-
0-ga425c42)
> [0000000001985388] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default
interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
> libva info: VA-API version 0.38.1
> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
> libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38
> libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
> [00007f683cc08cf8] avcodec decoder: Using OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale
backend for VDPAU for hardware decoding.
> [h264 @ 0x7f683cc5e100] hardware accelerator failed to decode picture
> 
> with the last line repeated over and over. I'm using the default
config
> and I have no problems with other codecs. I've skimmed the apt logs
and 
> saw vlc was upgraded a week ago (as well as ffmpeg).
> 
> I also checked the Debian BTS and found nothing relevant.
> 
> What's wrong?
> 
> Thanks, Leonardo
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),
(1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages vlc depends on:
> ii  fonts-freefont-ttf          20120503-4
> ii  libaa1                      1.4p5-44
> ii  libavcodec-ffmpeg56         7:2.8.5-1+b1
> ii  libavutil-ffmpeg54          7:2.8.5-1+b1
> ii  libc6                       2.21-7
> ii  libcaca0                    0.99.beta19-2+b1
> ii  libcairo2                   1.14.6-1
> ii  libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11]  11.1.1-2
> ii  libfreerdp-client1.1        1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-
5+b1
> ii  libfreerdp-core1.1          1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-
5+b1
> ii  libfreerdp-gdi1.1           1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-
5+b1
> ii  libfreetype6                2.6.1-0.1