[Bug 71796] Hardware assisted (VDPAU) decoding of MPEG-2 causes GPU lockup - Radeon HD6950

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71796

--- Comment #13 from Kertesz Laszlo <laszlo.kertesz at gmail.com> ---
> I think this file is exceptional and so it not working is probably unrelated
> to whatever issue others are seeing.
> 
> It doesn't work because vdpau doesn't support field coded mpeg2. I guess
> because it is very rare - other than compliance streams this is the first
> one I've seen in the wild, and given it's mpeg2 in mkv with ac3 and the
> cartoon content is a mix of progressive and interlaced (maybe from telecine
> and frame rate converted) I don't know if it's an amateur creation or
> something "real".

The problem here is that a movie playback can mess up your session because the
driver cannot cope with an exception caused by a specific video format. This
should not happen in any circumstances.

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