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Playback seems fine until I try seeking the video, then I get this error over and over in the terminal:

[00007fba4906ef78] avcodec decoder: Using NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  343.36  Mon Dec  1 15:53:25 PST 2014 for hardware decoding.
[00007fba4906ef78] avcodec decoder: Using NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  343.36  Mon Dec  1 15:53:25 PST 2014 for hardware decoding.
video surface destruction failure: The display was pre-empted, or a fatal error occurred.
[00007fba2c000a58] vdpau_avcodec generic error: video surface creation failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fba4906ef78] avcodec decoder error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed
[h264 @ 0x7fba490e0aa0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x7fba490e0aa0] no frame!
video surface destruction failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fba2c000a58] vdpau_avcodec generic error: video surface creation failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fba4906ef78] avcodec decoder error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed
[h264 @ 0x7fba4913dd80] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x7fba4913dd80] no frame!

This is with a GeForce 970 graphics card.

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  • Does this happen with all videos or one particular one? – Fabby Feb 17 '15 at 07:27
  • All videos that I tried, though admittedly I only have h264 videos to try, not sure if that makes a difference. – Lesleh Feb 17 '15 at 09:52
  • Have you tried the 346.35 driver yet? If no, do you have the xorg-edgers PPA installed? – Fabby Feb 17 '15 at 09:57
  • I checked and I'm using 343.36. But I installed it from the nVidia website, wasn't aware there was a PPA for it. – Lesleh Feb 18 '15 at 10:14
  • No worries... The PPA just allows an easier upgrade path then the NVidia drivers themselves: Once you've downloaded and installed those, there is no automatic update: you need to keep an eye on them yourself and update them manually every time NVidia updates them. What version of Ubuntu are you running? – Fabby Feb 18 '15 at 10:25
  • I'm using Ubuntu 14.10. – Lesleh Feb 18 '15 at 10:41
  • Ah! Answer coming up! (but you're not going to like it...) – Fabby Feb 18 '15 at 10:42

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You've been affected by this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/1374825 so the only thing for you to do is to subscribe to the bug list and whenever the bug is resolved, and the update comes in, the problem will go away all by itself...

If you don't want to wait, have a look here instead.

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    Aha, that looks like it. Totem plays videos just fine so I guess I'll stick with that until it's fixed. Thanks! – Lesleh Feb 18 '15 at 10:50