Video playback has distorted colours

[NeoTheThird]

if i try to play a video i have an error (err to play vid.. failed to connect with playback backend) hammerhead nexus 5
Thanks

reported by https://launchpad.net/~ilmixmoto.

[nfsprodriver]

If you haven't tried yet, try me UTmedia app from the OpenStore to playback videos. It's a HTML5 app running with mediaelement.js, so opening videos via ContentHub isn't possible. You must open it in the app itself. So this is more a temporary solution, but it works (at least for me).

[mariogrip]

Fix released (for bacon)

[mauricioduarte01]

Glad to see that this is getting attention. UTmedia app was a life saver. Thanks

[ghost]

Video distortion happens

[mariogrip]

Ok, so i have been working on this for such a long time now without any progress, so this is where im at now.

The reason this is happening is a blob mismatch since we are using caf graphics drivers since the aosp ones makes some horrible vsync issues, this seems to have caused the decoder to have a color mismatch (or pixel format). So in simple words this is extremely hard. there is two options to fix this, make the aosp blobs work without vsync issue (mir changes) or make the color for decoder match the caf graphics drivers

maybe @peat-psuwit have some ideas?

Im sorry that this is not fixed yet, but it has been way to hard then i ever expected it to be

[ruedigerkupper]

Please change the subject of this bug report to help other users find it:
Suggestion: Video playback has tistorted colors.

[ruedigerkupper]

The current title completely fails to point users here.