All video decoding randomly stops working. #249
Description
This has occurred on my Raspberry Pi OS system for about a month now.
Once in a while, something happens that causes the video decoded to stop working. This "trigger" can happen at any time it seems, but is more likely to happen if I do something weird with VLC or Chromium. Like playing a video and closing vlc while it's playing.
I've not found a fool-proof way to activate the "trigger" yet, but messing around with hw-accelerated video players seems to sometimes cause it.
After this trigger is activated, no more videos will play on my Pi until I reboot it.
Youtube videos never load in Chromium. It shows the spinning white circle forever.
Also, no videos play in VLC anymore. VLC forever thinks that the video is loading (with that orange slider bounding left and right), but the video never ever starts playing. I've tried various video codecs on VLC, and all of the have the same result.
And as I said, rebooting "fixes" all these problems, Youtube works again, vlc works again, until the next time that "trigger" is triggered. :)
Next time this "trigger" happens, I'll try to capture error logs from Chromium, vlc, and omxplayer. Is there anything else specific I should try for diagnosing what's causing the issue?
RPi-Distro/vlc#31 may be referring to the same problem I'm experiencing.