I have this same issue on my computer. The gnome application called Video plays my video file with out any problems, but with vlc the video is blank/black and audio working fine.
Here is a sample of the output from terminal; mabo@debian:~/Videos$ vlc Insiders\ 722016.mp4 VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80) [000000000101e158] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. libva info: VA-API version 0.38.1 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 [00007fa246c68968] avcodec decoder: Using OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale backend for VDPAU for hardware decoding. [h264 @ 0x7fa246cbfec0] hardware accelerator failed to decode picture This last line repeats ... On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:59:41 +0100 Leonardo Canducci <leonardo.canducci @gmail.com> wrote: > Package: vlc > Version: 2.2.1-5+b2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > I got no video for h264 files (worked fine before). > Other info: gnome3, intel graphics 4600. > > Steps to reproduce bug on my PC: Playing an h264 sample file such as: > > http://download.openbricks.org/sample/H264/big_buck_bunny_480p_H264_A AC_25fps_1800K_short.MP4 > > I get: > > leo@asbesto:~$ vlc Scaricati/big_buck_bunny_480p_H264_AAC_25fps_1800K_short.MP4 > VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1- 0-ga425c42) > [0000000001985388] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. > libva info: VA-API version 0.38.1 > libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 > libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so > libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38 > libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 > [00007f683cc08cf8] avcodec decoder: Using OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale backend for VDPAU for hardware decoding. > [h264 @ 0x7f683cc5e100] hardware accelerator failed to decode picture > > with the last line repeated over and over. I'm using the default config > and I have no problems with other codecs. I've skimmed the apt logs and > saw vlc was upgraded a week ago (as well as ffmpeg). > > I also checked the Debian BTS and found nothing relevant. > > What's wrong? > > Thanks, Leonardo > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages vlc depends on: > ii fonts-freefont-ttf 20120503-4 > ii libaa1 1.4p5-44 > ii libavcodec-ffmpeg56 7:2.8.5-1+b1 > ii libavutil-ffmpeg54 7:2.8.5-1+b1 > ii libc6 2.21-7 > ii libcaca0 0.99.beta19-2+b1 > ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1 > ii libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11] 11.1.1-2 > ii libfreerdp-client1.1 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1- 5+b1 > ii libfreerdp-core1.1 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1- 5+b1 > ii libfreerdp-gdi1.1 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1- 5+b1 > ii libfreetype6 2.6.1-0.1
