I haven't been able to reproduce this behaviour with mpv. I've tried all combinations of --vo=opengl / --vo=vaapi and --hwdev=vaapi and they all display correctly.
mpv 0.8.0 (C) 2000-2015 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects built on 2015-02-19T17:03:21 libav library versions: libavutil 54.3.0 libavcodec 56.1.0 libavformat 56.1.0 libswscale 3.0.0 libavfilter 5.0.0 libavresample 2.1.0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1507994 Title: Broadwell vaapi video decode broken by i915_bpo migration To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1507994/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs