mesa-va-drivers cause red/yellow video playback in gstreamer-based apps like xplayer

[jcalcote]

Why do the mesa-va-drivers cause gstreamer-based players like xplayer to render video in red and yellow rather than their proper colors?

[Hoser Rob]

Hard to say with no system info at all, copy/paste this to the teminal and copy/paste the text output here (no screenshots please):

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inxi -Fxz

And where did you get mesa-va-drivers from?

BTW the mpv devs recommend turning off ALL hardware decoding. It hasn't actually been necessaary for playing video files in the last 15 to 20 years, and can cause problems with certain formats etc that are hard to debug.

[jcalcote]

The mesa-va-drivers package was installed by default on my Linux Mint 19 system (or at least, something I installed later caused it to be installed as a dependency, but I removed it without any problem so it must have been a soft dependency in that case). I originally discovered this solution to my xplayer (gstreamer) problems from a post by condorman a few months ago. In it, he stated that he had stupidly installed this package (as if he understood exactly why it was a stupid thing to do). I asked him on that post why it was so obvious to him that this was the problem but the moderator closed the ticket for additional responses right after I posted.

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System:    Host: jmc-mint Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9 
           Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: X58A-UD3R v: x.x serial: <filter> BIOS: Award v: FH date: 01/06/2012 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7 950 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 49032 
           Speed: 1761 MHz min/max: 1596/3060 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1599 2: 1599 3: 1637 4: 1653 5: 1602 6: 1599 7: 1626 
           8: 1599 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Radeon RX 460] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           bus ID: 03:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 460 Graphics (POLARIS11 / DRM 3.23.0 / 4.15.0-20-generic LLVM 6.0.0) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-20-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI 
           port: ae00 bus ID: 07:00.0 
           IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.59 TiB used: 239.66 GiB (14.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD1502FAEX-007BA0 size: 1.36 TiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD2500BEVS-22UST0 size: 232.89 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.34 TiB used: 68.67 GiB (5.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 35 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1771 
Info:      Processes: 325 Uptime: 15d 19h 03m Memory: 11.72 GiB used: 3.75 GiB (32.0%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 7.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.19 inxi: 3.0.27 

[Hoser Rob]

... I originally discovered this solution to my xplayer (gstreamer) problems from a post by condorman a few months ago. In it, he stated that he had stupidly installed this package (as if he understood exactly why it was a stupid thing to do). ...

Please post a link to that thread s others can judge for themselves why or whether it was stupid or not.

[DAMIEN1307]

this is the "locked" post that was referred to...DAMIEN

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=277255&sid=c3545bc ... 0befa16653

note that it was marked as "solved" as well