[mythtv-users] black screen during playback

HP-mini blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz
Sat Jan 26 19:19:07 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 17:59 +0100, Kenni Lund wrote:

> > I don't think the VDPAU filter was the culprit in my case. Both the
> > working config and non-working config have the VDPAU filter set to
> > "vdpaucolorspace=auto".
> 
> So did mine, that's *exactly* the same situation as I had. Two
> frontends both with the default VDPAU filter enabled,
> "vdpaucolorspace=auto". One of the frontends suddently stopped working
> (black screen with audio under playback) with no changes to software
> or hardware. Once I changed the hostname to reset the settings, the
> frontend worked for at least some days up to a couple of weeks, after
> which the issue appeared again and I could change the hostname once
> again to temporarily "fix" the issue. After I had done this a number
> of times over a period of 3-4 months with no luck in identifying the
> real issue, I tried to pinpoint if I could avoid triggering the issue
> by using some other playback settings in MythTV.
> 
> While being on a non-working frontend, I was able to recover VDPAU
> playback functionality by removing "vdpaucolorspace=auto" *WITHOUT*
> changing the hostname or by doing any other changes to settings. At
> the same time, the black-screen issue did not reappear any more.
> 
> In other words, my conclusion was that removing "vdpaucolorspace=auto"
> fixed the black screen issue immediately and also avoided that the
> issue reappeared after some days/weeks.
> 
> If you experience the issue again in a couple of days/weeks, don't
> reset the settings, just try to delete the VDPAU filter and see if it
> doesn't fix the issue.
> 
> Best regards
> Kenni


The filters (vdpau)buffersize, colorspace & studiolevels had changes..
Studiolevels & colorspace are set from OSD GUI..



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