Video Freezes / Glitches [avcodec error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed]
Posted: 03 Aug 2018 18:26
When seeking rapidly through a long video there are no issues. But in a certain situations the picture completely freezes for about 5 seconds, scrambling and glitches occur for another 5-10 seconds, then the video continues to play fine.
I did some research after I noticed this and found a few very old bugs that have been marked as fixed back in 2015-2016. I couldn't find any recent suggestions or fixes about similar issues.
This doesn't happen randomly, though only in a certain situations. I can reproduce it almost every time:
1. Seek forward through a video
2. Quickly click pause (or hit space for convenience)
3. Immediately go a few seconds back, then unpause (resume)
- The video becomes completely frozen for about 5 seconds, then random colors / pixelation / scramble occurs and after a few more seconds continues to play fine. (The audio isn't affected at all when this issue occurs)
An error pops up in "Messages":
Also when the video is frozen and the glitches occur, there are a lot of errors for skipping frames:
The game videos in the screenshots above are just examples. They were recorded / rendered with completely different softwares, some of them a long time ago.
This happens with many containers, formats, codecs but mainly with mp4 H.264 / H.265 HEVC
I have tested a lot of settings / combinations and found that this issue is related to the Hardware Acceleration (Decoding). When using Software Decoding (CPU) the freezes / glitches don't occur, but then the playback isn't very smooth.
It's not worth it to manually disable HW Decoding on a high-end system, just to solve this weird issue...
Messages (Error Verbosity): https://hastebin.com/xoboluzone
Messages (Debug Verbosity): https://hastebin.com/ebocimoluk
Full Debug Log: https://hastebin.com/setazubone
PC Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K 4.00GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (MSI Gaming X 8GB)
RAM: 2 x 8GB DDR4 2666MHz
SSD: Samsung PM961 PCI-E M.2 256GB (2800 MB/s Read, 1100 MB/s Write)
HDDs: 1 x 1TB 7200 RPM, 64MB Cache, 1 x 2TB 7200 RPM, 64MB Cache
Other:
Windows 10 Pro x64, Version 1803, Build 17134.48
VLC 3.0.3 x64
I really hope that there will be a solution to this problem. I will provide additional information if needed, thanks in advance!
I did some research after I noticed this and found a few very old bugs that have been marked as fixed back in 2015-2016. I couldn't find any recent suggestions or fixes about similar issues.
This doesn't happen randomly, though only in a certain situations. I can reproduce it almost every time:
1. Seek forward through a video
2. Quickly click pause (or hit space for convenience)
3. Immediately go a few seconds back, then unpause (resume)
- The video becomes completely frozen for about 5 seconds, then random colors / pixelation / scramble occurs and after a few more seconds continues to play fine. (The audio isn't affected at all when this issue occurs)
An error pops up in "Messages":
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[avcodec error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed]Also when the video is frozen and the glitches occur, there are a lot of errors for skipping frames:
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...avcodec error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
avcodec error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
avcodec error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)...The game videos in the screenshots above are just examples. They were recorded / rendered with completely different softwares, some of them a long time ago.
This happens with many containers, formats, codecs but mainly with mp4 H.264 / H.265 HEVC
I have tested a lot of settings / combinations and found that this issue is related to the Hardware Acceleration (Decoding). When using Software Decoding (CPU) the freezes / glitches don't occur, but then the playback isn't very smooth.
It's not worth it to manually disable HW Decoding on a high-end system, just to solve this weird issue...
Messages (Error Verbosity): https://hastebin.com/xoboluzone
Messages (Debug Verbosity): https://hastebin.com/ebocimoluk
Full Debug Log: https://hastebin.com/setazubone
PC Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K 4.00GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (MSI Gaming X 8GB)
RAM: 2 x 8GB DDR4 2666MHz
SSD: Samsung PM961 PCI-E M.2 256GB (2800 MB/s Read, 1100 MB/s Write)
HDDs: 1 x 1TB 7200 RPM, 64MB Cache, 1 x 2TB 7200 RPM, 64MB Cache
Other:
Windows 10 Pro x64, Version 1803, Build 17134.48
VLC 3.0.3 x64
I really hope that there will be a solution to this problem. I will provide additional information if needed, thanks in advance!