FS#65063 - Hardware video acceleration with VDPAU breaks with nvidia-utils 440.44-2

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Rahul Prabhu (favre49) - Monday, 06 January 2020, 05:22 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Thursday, 20 February 2020, 22:06 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
After the upgrade to nvidia-utils 440.44-2, VDPAU hardware acceleration is broken, resulting in crashes when using applications like VLC.

The output of vdpauinfo is:
display: :0 screen: 0
Error creating VDPAU device: 1

Additional info:
This is fixed by downgrading nvidia-utils to 440.44-1.
This is seen on a laptop with Optimus using PRIME, on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050.
It may be related to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64805 ?

Steps to reproduce:
Upgrade to nvidia-utils 440.44-2. Check the output of vdpauinfo or attempt to use an application like VLC that can use hardware video acceletation
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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Thursday, 20 February 2020, 22:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Monday, 06 January 2020, 14:19 GMT
What is you try the suggestions from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1881067#p1881067 ?

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