Are you using hardware acceleration for video playback? If so try disabling it.
Yes, this is with VAAPI acceleration. Changing to software decoding fixes the issue, but unfortunately software decoding is not quite fast enough for all my blu ray rips.
I don't want to turn this on and off before each film.
Perhaps if there was a way to disable acceleration just for mpeg2 playback?
I ask because I had this issue myself with certain videos and it turned out to be the way they were ripped
My videos are ripped from my dvds and are not transcoded. So they are commercially created mpeg 2.
I ripped them with makemkv
I'm having this exact same issue on an i5 Haswell NUC playing videos that were ripped straight from DVD - no transcoding/recompression. I'm running XBMCbuntu with XBMC 13.1. I'm seeing that there's supposed to be a fix available through those bug links, but how do I get the fix installed onto my XBMC box? Thanks!
After much research (I'm mostly familiar with Red Hat distros, not Ubuntu) I think I've figured this out. The VAAPI driver is installed by the i965-va-driver package, which is currently version 1.3.0 under Ubuntu 14.04:
root@htpc:/var/tmp# apt list i965-va-driver
Listing... Done
i965-va-driver/trusty,now 1.3.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
However, there's a 1.3.2 update for this in the proposed repository. I downloaded it with curl and then installed it:
root@htpc:/var/tmp# curl -OL
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/177724053/..._amd64.deb
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 203k 100 203k 0 0 212k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 212k
root@htpc:/var/tmp# ls -l
total 204
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208494 Aug 2 13:51 i965-va-driver_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb
root@htpc:/var/tmp# dpkg -i i965-va-driver_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 124562 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack i965-va-driver_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking i965-va-driver:amd64 (1.3.2-1) over (1.3.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up i965-va-driver:amd64 (1.3.2-1) ...
After this I rebooted my NUC and no more green squares! This 1.3.2 package should really be promoted out of proposed, but that's not XBMC's problem and I'm not sure how it happens.
The fix suggested by Pheran worked on the first attempt for my i3 NUC. ssh'd in and dpkg, reboot and now hardware accelerated MVK's are perfect.
This fix by Pheran sorted an occassional problem for me playing mkv files ripped using makemkv. Using Gotham
Thanks Pheran. Like mnewnham, some of my mkv movies ripped with makemkv had this problem. I followed the steps suggested by Pheran, and they are all OK.
I had the same issue, and Pheran's fix solved it. Kodi 14.2 on Intel NUC with Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-57-generic x86_64)
(2014-08-02, 20:03)Pheran Wrote: [ -> ]After much research (I'm mostly familiar with Red Hat distros, not Ubuntu) I think I've figured this out. The VAAPI driver is installed by the i965-va-driver package, which is currently version 1.3.0 under Ubuntu 14.04:
root@htpc:/var/tmp# apt list i965-va-driver
Listing... Done
i965-va-driver/trusty,now 1.3.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
However, there's a 1.3.2 update for this in the proposed repository. I downloaded it with curl and then installed it:
root@htpc:/var/tmp# curl -OL http://launchpadlibrarian.net/177724053/..._amd64.deb
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 203k 100 203k 0 0 212k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 212k
root@htpc:/var/tmp# ls -l
total 204
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208494 Aug 2 13:51 i965-va-driver_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb
root@htpc:/var/tmp# dpkg -i i965-va-driver_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 124562 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack i965-va-driver_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking i965-va-driver:amd64 (1.3.2-1) over (1.3.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up i965-va-driver:amd64 (1.3.2-1) ...
After this I rebooted my NUC and no more green squares! This 1.3.2 package should really be promoted out of proposed, but that's not XBMC's problem and I'm not sure how it happens.
I know this is an old thread but I'm having the same problem running Ubuntu.
I know nothing about Ubuntu so I'm asking what exactly do I type at the command line to fix this problem...Thanks in advance!
BTW I have an Intel Nuc
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:wsnipex/vaapi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade