mplayer and vlc errors in F25 and rawhide (F26) after friday and saturday's updates

[stan]

Thanks for your response.

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 21:23:16 +0200
Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some  users has reported a better behaviour using the modesetting
> driver over nouveau (and maybe radeon) at this time while switching to
> xorg-x11-server 1.19.
> You might try.

I'm not sure what this means for radeon.  Do you mean I should use the
closed source catalyst driver?  I'm not even sure how to do that.  And
it seems to me that X is broken if it requires using a different driver
than the linux kernel provides for the hardware.

I see there is a package
xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.7.1-1.20160928git3fc839ff.fc25.x86_64. I wonder if
the problem I'm seeing was introduced with changes there?

I could probably test if this is X related by getting all the previous
xorg packages from koji and downgrading to the previous version of X.
Do you think this was introduced by the change in X?  i.e.  in your
opinion, is there a pretty good chance that downgrading would fix the
problem?

> There is no vlc/mplayer update.But you can still report the output of
> vlc -v from cmdline as a start.
> Maybe that will show something wrong in either side.

Here's the output from running vlc -v

VLC media player 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision
2.2.0-git-8754-g1c89583) [000056425578d168] core libvlc: Running vlc
with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[00007fc65cc01b48] mp4 demux warning: elst box found [00007fc65cc01b48]
mp4 demux warning: STTS table of 1 entries [00007fc65cc01b48] mp4 demux
warning: CTTS table of 22879 entries [00007fc65cc01b48] mp4 demux
warning: elst box found [00007fc65cc01b48] mp4 demux warning: STTS
table of 1 entries [00007fc65cd40968] avcodec decoder warning: thread
type 1: disabling hardware acceleration [00007fc65cdf3fc8] faad decoder
warning: decoded zero sample [00007fc654008078] core vout display
warning: VoutDisplayEvent 'pictures invalid' [00007fc654008078] core
vout display warning: VoutDisplayEvent 'pictures
invalid' [00007fc654008078] core vout display warning: VoutDisplayEvent
'pictures invalid' [00007fc65cd40968] avcodec decoder warning: plane 0
not aligned: disabling direct rendering [000056425586dbe8] pulse audio
output warning: starting late (-11854 us) [00007fc6400a9a88] core video
output warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 142 ms)
[00007fc6400a9a88] core video output warning: picture is too late to be
displayed (missing 109 ms) [00007fc6400a9a88] core video output
warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 76 ms)
[00007fc6400a9a88] core video output warning: picture is too late to be
displayed (missing 42 ms) [00007fc6400a9a88] core video output warning:
picture is too late to be displayed (missing 125 ms) ...

This continues till I stop.