Bug#901023: vlc: Hadware decoding does not work with 3.0.2

Thu Jun 28 16:52:46 BST 2018

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:20:18 +0300 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi?= 
Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> You either have to use libav, or a more recent FFmpeg, or manually turn off 
> threaded decoding in VLC preferences.

Whatn FFmpeg version I should build VLC with for threading to work, can 
I simply grab the latest 4.x?

Could it be that bug #898428 could be avoided with latest FFmpeg?

Thanks!

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898428