Blank screen when decoding H264 in VLC?

[zindy]

Hello, since you have been working on this recently, I thought I'd check if this is an issue at my end or if this is widespread.

I have:

• an old Thinkpad x200s
• a fresh install of Mint 18.1 64 bit
• a bcm70015
• Your crystalhd module

I have tested This DivX video with vlc --codec=crystalhd and it works fine (my altered cHD indicator goes blue when VLC plays the video).

However, this video (11MB) just shows a blank screen in VLC and so does this one (much larger). Both play fine when launching VLC without the crystalhd codec modifier.

Trawling through the driver files on the Dell and broadcom websites, I found different firmware versions for the crystalhd card, but none of them magically make H264 decode, and the one you included seems to be the absolute latest available anywhere, as well as in Debian firmware-crystalhd (0.0~git20120110.fdd2f19-1). In the binary bcm70015fw.bin file you included, you can find: $Media_PC_FW_Rev: 1.54.0.0 $ $Dates: 2010/11/30 15:40:00 $

Anyway, just wanted to compare notes :-)

Cheers, Egor