Video Freeze , audio continues on media players #494

BurhanDanger · 2018-05-14T14:13:21Z

Platform: archlinux x86_64
kern: 4.16.8

GPU, drivers, and screen setup: i915 (intel i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz)
modsettings
i3 on xorg(xorg-server 1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2), mesa 18.0.3-1

Compton version: compton 0.1_beta2.5-11

Steps of reproduction

Run compton with following

compton --backend glx --config /dev/null
[    80.44 ] error    3 BadWindow    request    2 minor    0 serial  65013: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[    80.44 ] error    3 BadWindow    request  129 minor    6 serial  65014: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[    80.44 ] error    3 BadWindow    request    2 minor    0 serial  65015: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[    80.44 ] error    3 BadWindow    request  129 minor    5 serial  65017: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[    80.44 ] error    3 BadWindow    request   20 minor    0 serial  65018: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
[  2800.30 ] error    9 BadDrawable  request   14 minor    0 serial 1180299: "BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)"
glx_bind_pixmap(0x00c3e4b3): Failed to query Pixmap info.
win_paint_win(0x004000af): Failed to bind texture. Expect troubles.
win_paint_win(0x004000af): Missing painting data. This is a bad sign.
[  2800.31 ] error    4 BadPixmap    request   54 minor    0 serial 1180343: "BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)"
^C

Play video in mpv or google-chrome (with h/w decode or s/w decode) in fullscreen. After sometime videoframe freezes at a point ,but audio keeps continuing. Whole system doesn't freeze. Switch from fullscreen , video frame syncs to appropriate frame and continues.

Happens randomly. Without compositor video plays smoothly.

Expected behavior

Play video smoothly without freezing video.

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mnivoliez · 2018-05-25T14:53:45Z

The problem happen also with video games.
But, the master version seems to already have resolved the problem.

ekce · 2018-05-27T16:41:15Z

The master version hasn't been updated in a year. This issue is newer than that and I can reproduce it on all my archlinux computers when building compton from git using the compton-git package in the aur.

mnivoliez · 2018-05-27T16:42:41Z

Really strange, using the compton-git fix it for me.

BurhanDanger · 2018-05-27T18:29:08Z

This repo hasn't been updated over a year as you can see. Compton that archlinux packages(that I use) is from yshui. Since compton hasn't been updated for long time it's some dependency (update) that broke compton and compton isn't updated to reflect that change.

I possibly don't have this freeze issue now. It's hard to know since it's random. @ekce Can you try compton with unredir i.e. compton --backend glx --config /dev/null --unredir-if-possible ?

BurhanDanger · 2018-05-27T18:34:09Z

Possibly related to #477 , #493

ekce · 2018-05-28T02:55:08Z

@BurhanDanger I'll try it when I get a chance.

A couple things I should have mentioned:

My computers are using nvidia proprietary drivers on Arch linux with xfce.
The freezes are most noticeable (for me) when using mpv. They are quite random and they don't last very long. Especially with animated content it's sometimes hard to notice the screen is frozen (though now that I'm accustomed to them I notice the freezing almost every time I play a video and forget to disable compton).
I've noticed the freezes affecting web browsers as well. Like I'll go to scroll or switch tabs and the browser will act like it's frozen (and in fact I initially thought it was my browser being sluggish for some reason). Making the connection between these freezes and the mpv ones were what eventually led me to test if compton was causing them.
Since I initially thought mpv was broken, I tested both git and stable mpv with a bunch of different settings to no avail before I realized the issue was with compton.
I do not know how long ago the freezes started. I know I noticed them in March (possibly sooner) but they could have been around much earlier.
Disabling compton resolves the issue but unfortunately I get screen tearing without compton so I still use it whenever I'm not watching videos.
Once I realized compton was to blame I saw development had stalled and browsed the issues for information. I could've sworn I had already seen an issue describing this problem at least a week before this one was posted (hence why I didn't open one) but it's possible I just saw Screen "freezing" with GLX backend #396 .
I tested a bunch of forks of compton by modifying the compton-git PKGBUILD to target them but they all had the same problem.

BurhanDanger · 2018-05-30T17:34:26Z

@mnivoliez , the game you mentioned , is it opengl accelerated ?

I've noticed the freezes affecting web browsers as well.

Face this as well. Thought it's chrome being chrome.

mnivoliez · 2018-05-30T17:39:13Z

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JPenuchot · 2018-05-31T21:46:07Z

Experiencing the same issue on my XPS 13 (9350, i7 6560U, Intel Iris Graphics 540), using i3wm. I noticed that displaying the i3bar (using the super key as) unfreezes the display. I can also provide some more details if you want (logs, etc.).

osleg · 2018-07-24T08:45:25Z

Same issue on XPS 9560 on both intel GPU and on NVIDIA gpu.
That started about half year - 8 month before.
unredir if possible is enabled.
This also happens to non full screen video playback, but super rare. For full screen it happens alot.
Could be that it happens alot for me since I have 4k display... but that's just a wild guess

nihilazo · 2018-07-26T06:33:00Z

This happens to me too. using i3-gaps, nvidia drivers. Same in games too (tried with stepmania and enter the gungeon primarily)

valsoray17 · 2018-08-04T02:33:36Z

The same here. Switching backend to xrender helps, but it's a bit choppy experience compared to glx.

deviantfero · 2018-08-10T21:12:24Z

Same here!

JPenuchot · 2018-08-17T14:59:06Z

The last commit is 1 y/o, 18 pull requests that will never be merged, Wayland is around the corner, I don't think Compton is going anywhere now, sadly...

yshui · 2018-08-17T17:28:19Z

@JPenuchot I'm maintaining a bug fix fork. But I can't seem to reproduce this bug...

BBBob · 2018-08-17T17:41:35Z

same in games and video

yshui · 2018-08-17T17:50:41Z

OK, may I ask what window manager do you guys use? Sounds like you are all using i3?

valsoray17 · 2018-08-17T17:55:09Z

Yep, i3 on my side

BBBob · 2018-08-17T17:56:32Z

Yep, I am using i3-gaps

JPenuchot · 2018-08-17T18:44:40Z

i3-gaps too

osleg · 2018-08-18T03:10:18Z

AwesomeWM

deviantfero · 2018-08-18T05:10:12Z

Confirming that it happens on openbox too, I was using i3-gaps before

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nxnev · 2018-08-18T06:57:41Z

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yshui · 2018-08-18T14:35:24Z

Hmm, I was thinking this might be because compton doesn't interact well with i3. But no, it happens with other WM as well.

Now I'm lost, I'm using AwesomeWM, and this problem has never happened to me. I need a way to reproduce this before I can fix this.

valsoray17 · 2018-08-18T14:41:20Z

Are there any logs to look for when it happens? Or maybe I can try to troubleshoot it locally, just tell me where to look :) I didn't find any messages in journal nor in .xsession-errors.

osleg · 2018-08-18T15:09:56Z

I doubt there are logs for that.
Also I think that might be caused by resolution, I have 2 machines one 1080p and the other one is 4k and freezes happen on 4k only.
They are quite heavy with YouTube 1080/60 fullscreen videos

deviantfero · 2018-08-18T15:22:40Z

I don't think it really has anything to do with resolution, it happens on both my monitor and my laptop screen 1080p and 720p respectively, anyway, here are my settings (which are pretty basic if I may add)

backend = "glx";
paint-on-overlay = true;
glx-no-stencil = true;
vsync = "opengl-swc";

shadow = false;

unredir-if-possible = true;
unredir-if-possible-exclude = "class_g = 'Chrome'";

shadow-exclude = [
  "name = 'Notification'",
  "_GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS@:c",
  "class_g = 'i3-frame'",
  "_NET_WM_STATE@:32a *= '_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN'",
  "_NET_WM_STATE@:32a *= '_NET_WM_STATE_STICKY'",
  "!I3_FLOATING_WINDOW@:c",
  "g:si:VirtualBox" 
];

I'm using an intel internal graphics card, if that works for anything

yshui · 2018-09-22T15:28:44Z

@enanajmain A workaround is in place (which might cause performance problems), and I'm looking into the real cause of the problem.

valsoray17 · 2018-09-22T15:33:43Z

Thanks for still looking into it!

yshui · 2018-09-22T18:22:09Z

I think I fully understand it now. Turns out to be a Xlib bug.

Lesson learned: never use Xlib, always use xcb

yshui · 2018-09-22T18:40:41Z

Plan is to switch at least the event handling bit to xcb. Will definitely need some testers.

JPenuchot · 2018-09-22T21:02:00Z

Very cool of you to take care of that issue, thanks a lot

yshui · 2018-09-22T22:56:55Z

Done. Can someone try this branch: yshui/compton@next ?

(Beware that branch has extra changes that contain bugs. If you encounter other problems unrelated to screen freeze, please open a issue on my repo mentioning the name of the branch.)

(This branch is known to crash due to some xlib/xcb interoperability issues)

3N4N · 2018-09-23T03:15:03Z

@yshui I was using Ubuntu 17.10 with compton in their official repo. Yesterday I switched to Ubuntu 18.04. Now, before I went on to install your branch, I wanted to record and test if the problem still persists. I don't know why, but the problem has fixed itself. I've been watching videos on mpv and chromium-browser while constantly pressing f to go in and out of full screen, nothing, no freezing.

The current version on official Ubuntu repo is v0.1~beta2+20150922, which is the latest I think. I don't know what version I was using in Ubuntu 17.10, but I think it was the same.

N.B I think it's worth mentioning that the chromium browser has had a massive upgrade. Maybe that has something to do with it.

haroldm · 2018-09-23T10:34:09Z

I am running your next branch, it seems to fix the issue as well.

yshui · 2018-09-23T16:49:50Z

I'm seeing regular crashes on the next branch. So test at will, but don't make the switch just yet.

Edit: I updated the next branch and the problem I was seeing should be fixed.

JPenuchot · 2018-09-23T18:21:10Z

Been running on the next branch for a few hours, so far no crash (Arch Linux, i7 6560U, i3wm).

valsoray17 · 2018-09-24T14:37:21Z

Have run the branch for a day. No crashes so far and the glx backend works fine.

trbKnl · 2018-09-25T12:27:48Z

I tried yshui/compton@next this solves the problem for me!
Video does not freeze in full screen anymore.
(Fedora 28, Intel Core i7-8550U, i3-gaps)

I still get these messages:
[ 587.82 ] error 3 BadWindow request 2 minor 0 serial 469375: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
Don't know whether that is important.

Thanks for making an effort! This was a very frustrating problem, I even switched to sway to try it out, it's great, but the stable branch does not have the features I want yet.

JPenuchot · 2018-09-25T12:30:32Z

Same here, been using it daily for 2 days and got no problem so far. Good work ! Do you have a donation link or something ?

OrdinaryMagician · 2018-09-25T14:15:57Z

Making the switch to that branch on my setup, will see if things work alright.

yshui · 2018-09-26T09:28:22Z

@JPenuchot I would rather have helping hands than donations.

OrdinaryMagician · 2018-09-26T11:19:30Z

Haven't seen ANY freezes so far after a day of use. Thank you~

BurhanDanger · 2018-09-26T18:38:34Z

I'm closing this now since it looks like yshui 's next branch solved this(which also needs testing for regression). Test that and Feel free to comment here or open issue on yshui's fork mentioning which branch you used.

psychon · 2018-09-27T08:03:20Z

I would rather have helping hands than donations.

@yshui What can I help you with specifically? :-)

yshui · 2018-09-27T12:37:53Z

@psychon I composed a short list of things I can think of right now:

https://github.com/yshui/compton/projects/2

psychon · 2018-09-27T14:01:52Z

@yshui Okay, which branch do you want me to work against? "Move to XCB" sounds like something that I can easily do and I touched pixman's API once or twice and might be able to "do stuff with regions".

yshui · 2018-09-27T14:42:53Z

@psychon I'm currently doing the pixman conversion, so maybe you could pick up the xcb conversion?

You can base your work on the next branch.

valsoray17 · 2018-09-28T03:44:36Z

I've decided to test the old version of compton one more time. Interestingly I wasn't able to reproduce the issue. It might have something to do with the updated kernel (currently 4.18.8-200.fc28.x86_64). I don't see anything else from graphics stack updated. Just wanted to let you know.

yshui · 2018-09-28T11:54:34Z

@valsoray17 The screen freeze is caused by an extremely timing dependent race condition. The bug can totally be there in the old version (BTW, it's a Xlib bug) but just doesn't manifest.

valsoray17 · 2018-09-28T14:48:55Z

Thanks for the explanation, will monitor the old version more

3N4N · 2019-01-02T21:19:57Z

@yshui, I was using next branch of your fork for a week. I just experienced two crashes today. Any idea?

yshui · 2019-01-02T21:52:12Z

@enanajmain please open a bug report

This was referenced Jun 24, 2018

GalliumOS 3.0 alpha video freezes while audio continues GalliumOS/galliumos-distro#447

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GalliumOS 3.0: Configuration Updates GalliumOS/galliumos-distro#430

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nxnev mentioned this issue Aug 6, 2018

opengl-cb: video freezes, audio works mpv-player/mpv#4993

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Picon freezes screen while playing full screen video yshui/picom#917

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Video Freeze , audio continues on media players #494

Video Freeze , audio continues on media players #494

Comments

BurhanDanger commented May 14, 2018

Steps of reproduction

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