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title="NEW --- - Hardware assisted (VDPAU) decoding of MPEG-2 causes GPU lockup - Radeon HD6950"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71796#c13">Comment # 13</a>
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title="NEW --- - Hardware assisted (VDPAU) decoding of MPEG-2 causes GPU lockup - Radeon HD6950"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71796">bug 71796</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:laszlo.kertesz@gmail.com" title="Kertesz Laszlo <laszlo.kertesz@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Kertesz Laszlo</span></a>
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<pre><span class="quote">> 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".</span >
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.</pre>
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