Any ideas on what to do about this (other than disabling hardware acceleration completely)?
GTX 970
you need ffmpeg & nvidia-utils & drivers nvidia
All this software is already installed.
Then transcode the video from VC1 to H264 using ffmpeg
:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -map_metadata -1 -c:v libx264 -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 384K output.mkv
where input.mkv
and output.mkv
are the names of the input and output video…
Worst Solution Possible
The worst possible solution would be: Don’t watch that video!
No really: it could be a damaged download and ffmpeg
can correct some errors that SMPlayer cannot… Have a try and feed back, please (I do this regularly).
If disable hardware acceleration or use another player, the video will play normally.