Bug#863606: vlc: Unable to play DVDs after upgrading to Stretch

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Hi

On 2017-06-13 09:30:10, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
> 
> Le 12/06/2017 à 21:31, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit :
> 
> > Looks like you have libvdpau-va-gl1 installed and use a Intel GPU. As this
> > combination caused problems in the past, could you please try to disable
> > hardware decoding, or force vlc to use VA-API or unsinstalling libvdpau-va-gl1
> > completely?
> > 
> > (This might be totally unrelated to your issue, but I am not aware of any
> > changes between jessie and stretch that could have caused regressions in DVD
> > support.)
> 
> Thank you for the hint Sebastian. libvdpau-va-gl1 isn't installed, and
> after disabling the hardware acceleration (in Tools -> Preferences ->
> Video -> Accelerated video output) I get the same result.

Sorry, I categorized the vdpau driver incorrectly. It looks more like
mesa-vdpau-drivers. Could you please install vdpauinfo, run it and attached its
output?

> Since my initial report I observed the same scrambled output with a .ts
> file not from a DVD, so that's probably not a dvdcss issue.

The issues could be a variant of #847012 or #765967.

> The laptop is a Thinkpad T60p with an Intel Core 2 Duo T2600 and an ATI
> Mobility FireGL V5200 video card.
> 
> Is there a way to force the use of VA-API with this setup? In Output
> combobox of the video settings I saw nothing related to VA-API.

Please try selecting on of the XCB or OpenGL outputs instead of automatic or the
VDPAU one. (I thought there was one for VA-API, but I remembered incorrectly.)

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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