MPlayer VA API error with new kernel from PPA

[funzoneq]

I've been compiling some kernels to enable TUN/TAP drivers, so I can use my Fit-PC2 as a media centre and a IPv6 tunnel gateway. I did this before, on the previous kernel from the PPA and everything worked fine. Then I reinstalled my Fit-PC2, because my mplayer installation got bugged. I got the fresh start running again, and everything worked fine.

So I decided to build a new kernel using the (new) .tar.gz supplied by the Fit-PC2 PPA. I have used both the .config from the original kernel and in another attempt the .config supplied by the package. Both end in the same failure: everything works as expected (including IPv6) except mplayer doesn't work with hardware support anymore.

It gives the following output:

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$ mplayer voa-ghostbusters_1080p_x264-sample.mkv
MPlayer SVN-r28469-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z530   @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 28, Stepping: 2)
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing voa-ghostbusters_1080p_x264-sample.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3), -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 0, -slang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [avc1]  1920x800  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
libva: va_DRI_GetDriverName: 0.1.0 psb (screen 0)
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va-0.29/drivers/psb_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VA API accelerated codec.
Selected video codec: [ffh264vaapi] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VA API))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 640.0 kbit/41.67% (ratio: 80000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 800 (preferred colorspace: H.264 VA API Acceleration)
VDec: using H.264 VA API Acceleration as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.40:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vaapi] 1920x800 => 1920x800 H.264 VA API Acceleration
vo_vaapi::find_free_surface(): rds->state != 0
vo_vaapi::find_free_surface(): rds->state != 0
mplayer: vaapivideo.c:1660: ff_vaapi_h264_frame_end: Assertion `status == 0x00000000' failed.


[b]MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: decode video[/b]
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

Is there maybe a patch or a module missing in the new kernel package? Does anybody have a clue what would cause this problem?

[Denis]

You mean that with fresh install you can play voa-ghostbusters_1080p_x264-sample.mkv and with custom kernel not?

(Not related to the mplayer - kernel config on default installation and on ppa is the same config - save compiling time)

[funzoneq]

Yes, that is exactly correct. With the original kernel the file plays just fine, but with the custom kernel (which only enables TUN) the error is given. When I reboot into the original kernel, mplayer works just fine.

[Denis]

Strange. Can you send me your new .config with TUN/TAP enabled? I will test it tommorow. The only thing I can think about is some another kernel settings were affected during recompiling..

[funzoneq]

Strange indeed. I don't see anything weird in the diff between the versions:

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diff /usr/src/linux-2.6.24.7.orig/.config /boot/config-2.6.24.7-v1-fitpc2
3,4c3,4
< # Linux kernel version: 2.6.24.7-v2-fitpc2
< # Fri Jun 26 20:01:48 2009
---
> # Linux kernel version: 2.6.24.7-v1-fitpc2
> # Mon Apr 20 10:25:52 2009
1171c1171
< CONFIG_TUN=m
---
> # CONFIG_TUN is not set
2152c2152
< # CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set
---
> CONFIG_USB_DEBUG=y

But just to be thorough I've uploaded the .config here: http://www.freshway.biz/files/fitpc2.config

[funzoneq]

Denis, were you able to reproduce the issue?

[Denis]

Yes, I installed new kernel and mplayer-vaapi gone. Rebuilding from sources didn`t helped. I`m keep trying..