No video playback? - hrev50073

I know hrev50073 is the latest nightly, but I’ve always seemed to have this problem since hrev50045…

It just seems like I can’t play any video on my system. I mean, I just open an avi file, for example, MediaPlayer starts, and then the screen blacks out, and there’s no sound either, and I have to reboot. And VLC doesn’t even work with videos for me…
But then, if I try to do the same on a VM, it just works fine

I got Haiku installed on a Pentium 4 HT 3 GHz with 1 GB of RAM, with an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 onboard, if it helps…

Hi, unfortunately developers sometimes introduce regressions, that’s why we are running the nightlies so that we can test. What I suggest is to restart media services from the Media preferences, or killing directly the media_addon_server and then the media_server from ProcessController. We are also aware of some problems at boot and we are working to get them fixed. Addionally the best place to report problems is our bugtracker :

https://dev.haiku-os.org/

Yeah, I know about regressions…
It seemed like it was a hardware problem, PulkoMandy helped me on the IRC, but I’ll keep in mind where I have to report bug in a future

This should be solved in hrev50081, if not feel free to open a bug report.

For the record, the problem was that MediaPlayer is set to use overlays by default, and they are still broken in the intel_extreme driver.