[miraclemaker]

The stacktrace is missing because I didn't have debugging enabled, is that right? Or do I need to install something else?

[Mysqo]

I purged Mesa and xbmc after that upgraded to 14.04 added Mesa and xbmc everything works except some sound problems can't hear what they say, but music plays as it should

[fritsch]

No idea - I cannot see your xbmc.log I don't know your passthrough configuration - just nothing :-)

[Mysqo]

Sorry, Tried to install the ppa:team-xbmc/ppa but it doesnt work eighter.

xbmc@xbmc:~$ dmesg | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7440131/

xbmc.log
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7440145/

xbmc@xbmc:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7440151/

xbmc@xbmc:~$ DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7440154/

xbmc@xbmc:~$ dpkg -l |grep mesa | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7440162/


EDIT: Everyting works fine now...

[pyrodex]

The stacktrace is missing because I didn't have debugging enabled, is that right? Or do I need to install something else?

You need to install gdb per the earlier request:

Code:

sudo apt-get install gdb

[miraclemaker]

I did install it:

Code:

xbmc@htpc:~$ sudo apt-get install gdb
[sudo] password for xbmc:
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  libc6-dbg libpython3.4
Suggested packages:
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Recommended packages:
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The following NEW packages will be installed
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[fritsch]

Without a debug log that is showing the artifacts you see or a sample or anything else I cannot help you.

[miraclemaker]

Sure thing I understand. I'm not sure why the log was not showing anything.

Here's a photo showing the artefacts (apologies it's out of focus). The same video file plays fine on my windows machine.



Can you clarify what you mean by a sample? A sample of the video file?

Thanks.

[fritsch]

Yes - I want a video, where I can reproduce. This heavily looks like a decoding error - is that live tv with bad signal?

[miraclemaker]

It's an avi file encoded with XVID. I've extracted a 7MB slice of the file for you using Avidemux:

Edit: I've removed the link now it's done it's job.

This has artefacts when played through XBMC but is fine on windows.

[fritsch]

Disable "VDPAU Mpeg-4" under Expert Settings.

[miraclemaker]

That's fixed it fritsch! Many thanks for your patience and expert assistance as always.

So Does VDPAU have issues with mpeg 4 or is it just something peculiar to my setup?

[MTroi]

The answer has been given a long time ago as I was running into a similar issue

No. That I did not say. We provide what the hw drivers / api provides. But yeah mpeg-4 / xvid was a time when a whole lot of different files / codecs / encodings / shitty encoders were around - so don't hold your breath too long. Xbmc does not do the decoding, it only uses well established interfaces (vdpau, vaapi, vda, dxva, etc.) most via ffmpeg hw context.

[User 217690]

That's fixed it fritsch! Many thanks for your patience and expert assistance as always.

So Does VDPAU have issues with mpeg 4 or is it just something peculiar to my setup?

You can suscribe to this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71812

[gfisher]

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mai...c5-utopic/
reporting mainline kernels works great skip-free on A4-5000 AQ01 xubuntu full desktop 64. compositing disabled via windows tweak manager.

In case someone else needs it for pulse audio installs that have static over hdmi. (system wide problem xbmc/youtube/firefox..) :

Code:

sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa

#find this line
load-module module-udev-detect
#modify/change/edit - to fix the Pulse Audio polling based code causing delay static.
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
Ctrl O
Ctrl X
sudo reboot