Bug#813370: vlc: no video in h264 files

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2016-02-19 02:23, Marc Bonnor a écrit :
> 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

As far as I know, this is a bug in libvdpau-va-gl.

Uninstall the libvdpau-va-gl1 package and restart VLC.

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