[azore321]

XBMC system is approximately two years old and has been working well up until past week or so. Now when I try to watch something, XBMC crashes immediately to my Linux desktop. No hardware or software changes were made at the time. So I tried updating Linux and XBMC but the problem persists. There are some errors in the debug log that will hopefully help out. Media files are mostly .mkv and play fine from desktop.

OS Linux Mint 14
XBMC Frodo
CPU Intel Sandybridge
Log file http://pastebin.com/K7J1pKSR

[fritsch]

01:05:31 T:140175652939520 DEBUG: VAAPI - attempting to open codec 28 with profile 100 at level 41 with 9 reference frames
01:05:31 T:140175644546816 NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86019, channels: 6, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
01:05:31 T:140175644546816 INFO: CSoftAE::MakeStream - AE_FMT_FLOAT, 48000, FL,FR,FC,LFE,SL,SR
01:05:31 T:140175652939520 DEBUG: VAAPI - initialize version 0.32
01:05:31 T:140175652939520 ERROR: VAAPI - unable to initialize display -1 - unknown libva error
01:05:31 T:140175652939520 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::GetFormat - Creating VDPAU(1280x720)
01:05:31 T:140175652939520 NOTICE: vdp_device = 0xffffffff vdp_st = 0x00000001
01:05:31 T:140175652939520 ERROR: (VDPAU) unable to init VDPAU - vdp_st = 0x1. Falling back.
01:05:31 T:140175652939520 NOTICE: (VDPAU) Close

Disable VDPAU and install the proper libva intel drivers, e.g.:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libva-intel-vaapi-driver

[azore321]

That took care of the problem. Thanks a lot! My video is now better than ever. I guess I never had the correct video driver until now.