All media players randomly stop outputting a picture

I use mainly Xine-UI. Sometimes after actually playing fine for quite some time, it will suddenly terminate. After that, all media players including xine will no longer display video, only audio. The video won't be black but "bugged" in the way that it does not refresh what was displayed there previously (so for example a thunar window will still be partially shown).
The behaviour actually slightly differs:
SMPlayer will behave as just described, but will continue to run like that and at least play the audio.
Gnome-MPlayer will behave just as SMPlayer except it will display a black picture, not a 'non-redrawn' one.
Xine however will start, a super short moment of audio will be played and then xine will immediately terminate.
Also noteable: If I start Xine when the bug occured and quickly switch workspace before Xine finished loading up, then Xine will play on the "hidden" workspace and output the audio. But the moment I actually switch back to that workspace it will terminate.
These problems seem to occur randomly and I have to log out of X and log back in to "fix" it each time. That will reset everything to normal until it happens again.
Last edited by mir91 (2014-09-25 20:50:45)

That "or something similar" is hardware acceleration and probably vaapi (or vdpau? both exist, find out which, although if you don't know it's likely to be vaapi) which leads to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188064 and https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42221 - so try to disable it in the players or update/wait for linux 3.17
Also somewhere in some logfile, starting the player in question on console and pasting the output here would probably suffice for initial debugging
Last edited by V1del (2014-10-17 07:02:56)

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