[Jabes]

Playing back certain MPEG-2 video files (as MKV) on my haswell based box gives green squares

http://imgur.com/ZelKUlf

I have cut down a video file which illustrates this - https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9pw3sv5pvytug...29-001.mkv

I did quite a bit of investigation with fritsch and it looks like it's a bug in xbmc as it plays back correctly in vlc apparently.

I have filed an xbmc bug report http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/14683 but no movement just yet, wondered if anyone had experienced the same problems?

[drivesoslow]

Are you using hardware acceleration for video playback? If so try disabling it.

[Jabes]

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?

[drivesoslow]

I ask because I had this issue myself with certain videos and it turned out to be the way they were ripped

[Jabes]

My videos are ripped from my dvds and are not transcoded. So they are commercially created mpeg 2.

I ripped them with makemkv

[Pheran]

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!

[fritsch]

vaapi bug - was fixed via: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/vaapi/intel-...e99979a817

Make sure to upgrade the intel drivers to 1.3.2

[Pheran]

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.

[pinchy62]

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.

[mnewnham]

This fix by Pheran sorted an occassional problem for me playing mkv files ripped using makemkv. Using Gotham

[johan.zietsman]

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.

[cjordahl]

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)

[obwiz]

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

[obwiz]

Anyone??

[wsnipex]

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:wsnipex/vaapi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade