<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I am using a vlc (2.0.9)+vaapi (0.32 libva 0.15.0)+xvba (0.8.1)+fglrx (13.4) setup for decoding h264 with direct rendering (Jean-Paul Saman's patches) (Radeon 6250). CPU usage is very good, since it stays at around 50% with and AMD G-T40E processor. <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15"> Unfortunately, if vlc crashes (xvba sometimes segfaults), or if I kill() it with SIGKILL, it seems that vaapi status remains corrupt (no call to vaTerminate()) and after some vlc restarts the decoder eventually stops working giving surface errors. Is there a way of cleaning vaapi's status, short of resetting the machine? Unloading X and fglrx is not working, and changing virtual terminal after killing X with chvt 1; chvt 7 isn't working either. Unfortunately the machine is not replaceable and the software stack was tested and I am wary of substituting from the drivers to VLC. Thank you in advance </body> </html>