[Bug 1652466] Re: Totem can't play videos on Gallium graphics without mesa-va-drivers

[Simon Quigley]

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Title:
  Totem can't play videos on Gallium graphics without mesa-va-drivers

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in libva package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in totem package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in libva source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in totem source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  Impact
  -------
  Totem can't play videos if gstreamer1.0-vaapi is installed on Gallium graphics in Xenial because mesa-va-drivers is not installed as a dependency of va-driver-all.

  Here is the dependency chain in Xenial:
  gstreamer1.0-vaapi Depends on libva1
  libva1 Recommends va-driver-all
  va-driver-all Depends on i965-va-driver vdpau-va-driver (no mesa-va-drivers)

  This is fixed in version 1.7.0-2 in Debian and Yakkety.
  libva (1.7.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

    * debian/control:
      - Add mesa-va-drivers as alternative to Depends of va-driver-all.
      - Bump Standards-Versions.

   -- Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org>  Wed, 11 May 2016
  17:32:06 +0200

  
  Test case
  ----------
  - Purge va-driver-all and mesa-va-drivers if already installed
  - Install va-driver-all from xenial-proposed
  - Make sure that mesa-va-drivers is pulled in
  - Play videos in Totem with gstreamer1.0-vaapi installed and make sure that videos play nicely.

  Here is the terminal output of Totem (with gstreamer1.0-vaapi installed and no mesa-va-drivers):
  :~$ totem
  Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
  libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
  libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
  libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
  libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
  libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
  libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
  libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/gallium_drv_video.so
  libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
  libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
  libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0

  When mesa-va-drivers is installed, Totem plays videos just fine.

  
  Regression potential
  ---------------------
  Since there are no code changes at all, I cannot think of any regressions.

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: va-driver-all 1.7.0-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-57.78-generic 4.4.35
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-57-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Dec 24 21:54:20 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-26 (242 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  SourcePackage: libva
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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