[Alchete]

I think better multithreading should be coming soon, probably before va-api gets fixed. If I'm reading the commits right, it should already be in the OE nightlies - the recent ones that are giving only black screen

Nice heads-up!

Here's what I found: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/3582/commits

Looks like it got committed 8 days ago to the XBMC Master. That means it should roughly be in the November 11th XBMC build. I'm not sure how often OpenELEC picks up the XBMC nightlies, but I'll check my build when I get home.

If I read it correctly, the way to enable multithreading is in the settings.xml file. If your settings.xml has the following tag, you can try setting the default to "true".

<setting id="videoplayer.useframemtdec" type="boolean" label="13440" help="36423">
<level>2</level>
<default>false</default>
<control type="toggle" />
</setting>