Hardware accelerated video playback is fucked
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Consider this innocuous video file:
If I open it with VLC, I get this:
https://i.imgur.com/RfulKkv.png
If I re-encode it as any other encoding, including H.264 10-bit, the problem goes away.
If I turn off hardware acceleration, or switch the acceleration to DirectX Video Acceleration 2.0 (away from Direct3D11), the problem goes away.
This is a new occurrence, and I've only been observing this for a week or so. Every single H.264 video file is affected, from YouTube downloads to torrents to videos like this one which was output directly from Handbrake. I doubt anything about hardware acceleration will actually be necessary, as I don't plan to be streaming 16k video any time soon, but I don't like things not working.Anyone know what could be causing this?
Win10 1803 17134.112
Nvidia GTX 1060 Mobile
Nvidia Game Ready Driver 398.36
VLC 3.0.3
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@pie_flavor said in Hardware accelerated video playback is fucked:
If I open it with VLC, I get this:
Did you try any good video player?
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@hungrier Know any that do hardware-accelerated decoding?
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@pie_flavor Not 100% sure but I think MPC-HC with the Shark007 codec pack does.
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I'd wager fuckered driver or physically borked GPU.
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@weng Could be the latter. I can't think of any instance of the computer getting a good clunking but the bluetooth has stopped working too.
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@pie_flavor Heat cycling probably cracked a trace.
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@weng I know some of those words.
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@weng said in Hardware accelerated video playback is fucked:
I'd wager fuckered driver or physically borked GPU.
On the driver one, have you tried moving the window to another monitor @pie_flavor?
I had a weird issue with VLC where it would do things like that if the window was on one monitor but work fine on the other one (if I had it half-and-half the window was just black).
@weng said in Hardware accelerated video playback is fucked:
@pie_flavor Heat cycling probably cracked a trace.
I haven't seen a trace fracture with thermal cycling but I have seen many a lifted ball and popcorned passives. We had 0805 MLCC capacitors exploding on one product, what I think was happening was one of the end terminations would shear, move slightly and short the layers, then build up heat and gas really quickly and go bang. Weird but entertaining.
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@cursorkeys said in Hardware accelerated video playback is fucked:
@weng said in Hardware accelerated video playback is fucked:
I'd wager fuckered driver or physically borked GPU.
On the driver one, have you tried moving the window to another monitor @pie_flavor?
I had a weird issue with VLC where it would do things like that if the window was on one monitor but work fine on the other one (if I had it half-and-half the window was just black).
I just tried it, no dice.
