Hi. On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:46:02 +0100 V <vak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > I am unsure which package is responsible for my bug and > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting suggests writing this mail. > > A brief summary about the bug: > Using VLC to play a video with the video output set to VDPAU freezes my > whole system. > The system is frozen as in displaying a freeze frame and not responding > to any input. I can sometimes eventually restore it without rebooting by > using SysRq to kill all processes which only works sometimes and after > about 2 minutes of delay between me pressing the hotkey and visual feedback. > I did not find anything suspicious in syslog or kernel.log. > I am on Debian testing. > > Using dpkg --get-selections | grep vdpau showed me: ... > mesa-vdpau-drivers In such case mesa-vdpau-drivers would be definitely the package I'd report bug against. As a workaround I suggest replacing vlc with mpv. At least "mpv -vo vdpau" fails for me with: [vo/vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. And without hanging my system. Reco
