[packman] [PM] vlc 2.2.0-261.1 (openSUSE 13.2/x86_64) [Bug: No video on VLC 2.2]

[Jimmy Berry]

I can confirm the mp4 problem. It seems to depend on the video file.
But I was watching a couple of different ones for editing and updated
vlc. Specific ones stopped working. Number of demux errors in output
log. I ended up updated to vlc 3.x beta and all better again.

--
Jimmy


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Wolfgang Bauer
<e9325712 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2015, 00:59:31 schrieb S.:
>> Since VLC was updated to 2.2, it has lost the ability to play .mp4
>> videos.
>
> No it hasn't. It plays .mp4 videos fine here, on several systems.
>
>> I am using a Thinkpad T530 with Intel graphics. I tried all the
>> different video output modes, and none of them work. I also tried
>> disabling hardware acceleration, but that did not help either.
>
> Did you disable it completely in VLC's ? Did you choose a different
> output device than "Auto" or "VDPAU" as well when you disabled it?
>
>> This seems to be a common problem:
>> https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/505803-VLC-no-longer-plays-MP4-%2
>> 8H264%29
>
> I don't see this as a "common problem" with VLC.
> _3_ people have mentioned a problem in this thread, and for two of
> them it is solved meanwhile.
>
>> Here is the output when I try to play an .mp4:
>> ...
>> [00007f9fd0ca9588] avcodec decoder: Using
> OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale
>> backend for VDPAU for hardware decoding.
>> [h264 @ 0x7f9fd0d54080] hardware accelerator failed to decode
> picture
>> [h264 @ 0x7f9fd0d993a0] hardware accelerator failed to decode
> picture
>> [h264 @ 0x7f9fd0e2fd60] hardware accelerator failed to decode
> picture
>> [h264 @ 0x7f9fd0ec6720] hardware accelerator failed to decode
> picture
>> [00007f9fb4001268] vdpau_display vout display error: video mixer
> surface
>> width capabilities query failure: VDP_STATUS_NO_IMPLEMENTATION
>> [h264 @ 0x7f9fd0d54080] hardware accelerator failed to decode
> picture
>> [h264 @ 0x7f9fd0d993a0] hardware accelerator failed to decode
> picture
>> [VS] error (vdpVideoSurfaceGetBitsYCbCr): not implemented
> conversion VA
>> FOURCC -> VDP_YCBCR_FORMAT_YV12
>> [00007f9fb569dd28] vdpau_chroma filter error: video surface export
>> failure: VDP_STATUS_INVALID_Y_CB_CR_FORMAT
>> [VS] error (vdpVideoSurfaceGetBitsYCbCr): not implemented
> conversion VA
>> FOURCC -> VDP_YCBCR_FORMAT_YV12
>> ======================
>
> Well, your problem is definitely related to hardware decoding (not VLC
> itself).
> Please follow the last post in the thread. Or are you the same person
> anyway?
>
> To repeat here:
>  As you have an intel system, make sure you do not have vdpau-video
> installed (although according to your output this seems not to be the
> problem, as libva opens /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so).
>
> So I would suggest you try to uninstall libvdpau_va_gl1. This redirects
> VDPAU to VA-API (libva), so that you can use VDPAU on intel systems as
> well.
> As VLC supports VA-API directly anyway, this is not really necessary.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Wolfgang
>
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