[mythtv-users] video playback profile for Intel graphics

[Hamish Moffatt]

On 22/10/16 16:47, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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> 2. Crashing on certain videos. I've got a series of videos in 720p 25 
> fps which I've been watching lately. I can watch one, but starting any 
> of those videos a second time causes Mythfrontend to crash. The last 
> line in the log is:
>
> Oct 21 21:26:19 bandicoot mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[29899]: I 
> CoreContext mythrender_vdpau.cpp:615 (CheckOutputSurfaces) VDPAU: 
> Added 2 output surfaces (total 4, max 4)

This seems to be related to MP4 HEVC videos. My VAAPI can't do it (Intel 
Haswell), so Myth falls back to VDPAU even though VAAPI is selected as 
the profile. The VDPAU works fine on the first run but crashes on the 
next run.

Oct 22 17:28:46 bandicoot mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[5446]: I 
CoreContext mythrender_vdpau.cpp:1796 (CheckHardwareSupport) VDPAU: 
Information OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale
  backend for VDPAU

... which is from libvdpau-va-gl1, not the mesa package I mentioned before.

I removed libvdpau-va-gl1 and now it can't fall back to VDPAU, and it 
doesn't crash. Will need a bit of time to determine if the overall 
performance/quality is acceptable now though.



Hamish