[mythtv-users] Suddenly getting VDPAU and audio errors

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 12:26:21 UTC 2016


On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>
wrote:

>
>
> On 8 November 2016 at 09:56, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Anthony Giggins <
>> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 November 2016 at 09:06, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> .27fixes system was working fine earlier today. Suudenly I'm getting
>>>>> choppy video and audio. Haven't done anything to change the system and the
>>>>> problem persists after a reboot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where should I be looking first?
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>> I've been using vdpau high quality since day one. Same equipment. Just
>>>> ran vdpauinfo and this was the result:
>>>>
>>>> display: :0.0   screen: 0
>>>> Error creating VDPAU device: 1
>>>>
>>>> Scratching my head here. Wassup?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> nvidia drivers?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but nothing that's been updated recently and, again, was working
>> fine this morning.
>>
>>  NVIDIA-SMI 4.304...   Driver Version: 304.132
>>
>>
>>
> There was a recent thread about this
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/604163
>
> you dont have automatic updates enabled? either way it appears this is a
> known issue and reverting  to 304.131 should fix your issues
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-
> graphics-drivers-304/+bug/1639180
>
>
>

I run apt-get upgrade manually every few days. Didn't notice a new driver
but wasn't really paying attention. Will do a rollback.
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