[fritsch]

Kodi 17.6 was tested and released by us with ffmpeg 3.1.x - 3.2 drops support for legacy API and does that in a buggy way. In short: if you get issues with an unsupported version of ffmpeg, then yes - what should I tell you?

[Harri]

Do you support Ubuntu 18.04?

[fritsch]

Do you support Ubuntu 18.04?

 That is Ubuntu version. Yes of course. We have an own ppa for ubuntu - we don't support the Ubuntu own Kodi for debian packages obviously.

[xenithorb]

Hi, I've been seeing this on Fedora 27 and 28 since about the same timeframe.

I can also confirm that this is due to VAAPI on Haswell

Code:

kodi-17.6-9.fc28.x86_64

text:
libva info: VA-API version 1.1.0

libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0

libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so

libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_1

failed to open /usr/lib64/dri/hybrid_drv_video.so

Failed to wrapper hybrid_drv_video.so

libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

vainfo: VA-API version: 1.1 (libva 2.1.0)

vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel® Haswell Mobile - 2.1.0

vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints

      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointEncSlice

      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointEncSlice

      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice

      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice

      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice

      VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh      : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh      : VAEntrypointEncSlice

      VAProfileH264StereoHigh         : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileH264StereoHigh         : VAEntrypointEncSlice

      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD

What else can I do to help here? Is there a TRAC bug for this? My workaround thus far has been to just disable VAAPI, at the cost of a little more CPU.

I'm wondering if this has something to do with the recent version bump of libva, as I also found out that the upgrade to 2.1.0 broke steam decoding completely too.

Surprised I'm not finding more people with this issue, as I would imagine there'd be a sizable portion of haswells out there using VAAPI. Weird

[fritsch]

It's quite  clear why you don't find them. Kodi 17.6 was released with ffmpeg 3.1, if distributions seem to know better and patch in ffmpeg 3.4 you get what you deserve. No need for a trac bug. Use kodi 17.6 as intended or upgrade to v18 beta which uses a newer ffmpeg version.