Still no joy with this video problem i can play all videos via Firefox no problem can not do TV via FF . Every application to play TV or a recorded film fails with the same report this started happening around 2 months ago but have not been able to pin down exactly which update caused the failure the system is fully updated every day . ### uname -a Linux ds9 4.10.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 18 08:39:42 CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux ### lspci -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 34d8 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27, NUMA node 0 Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at ce000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] I/O ports at d800 [size=128] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nouveau ### lsmod |grep nouveau nouveau 1544192 12 led_class 16384 2 input_leds,nouveau mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau wmi 16384 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau video 36864 1 nouveau ttm 86016 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 126976 1 nouveau drm 303104 15 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 16384 3 cx88_vp3054_i2c,cx88xx,nouveau button 16384 1 nouveau ### dmesg |grep nouveau [ 13.222319] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GT216 (0a5000a2) [ 13.358327] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 70.16.39.00.0f [ 13.358663] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 d7500086 d7500086 [ 13.358866] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 b42800b3 b42800b3 [ 13.359058] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 adb75814 adb75814 [ 13.359250] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 adb75814 adb75814 [ 13.359439] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: OOB 1 adb75814 adb75814 [ 13.360092] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 1024 MiB DDR2 [ 14.441658] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 1024 MiB [ 14.441659] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB [ 14.441664] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0 [ 14.441665] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0 [ 14.441667] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000302 00020030 [ 14.441670] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02000300 00000000 [ 14.441671] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 01032310 00000000 [ 14.441673] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 03: 02021362 00020010 [ 14.441674] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00001030 [ 14.441675] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 00002161 [ 14.441676] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 02: 00000200 [ 14.444620] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: hwmon_device_register() is deprecated. Please convert the driver to use hwmon_device_register_with_info(). [ 14.464244] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies [ 14.524032] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: allocated 1280x1024 fb: 0x70000, bo ffff880130211400 [ 14.524777] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device [ 14.681857] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device [ 14.694858] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 ### dmesg |grep vga [ 0.637534] pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: setting as boot VGA device [ 0.637536] pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none [ 0.637538] pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: bridge control possible [ 0.637538] vgaarb: loaded Running kaffeine from a terminal calling tv sound ok no video [00007f8fa4001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies. [00007f8fa4001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies. [00007f8fa4001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies. same again but trying to play a video stored on the system [00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies. [00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies. [00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies. [00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies. [00007f1598001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: A catch-all error, used when no other error code applies. with exactly the same respomse from VLC as well this has now been in this brain dead state for a couple of months the system is updated daily with pacman -Syu Help needed to get this problem flattened . Hope someone can spot the problem or if not what more info do you need . Thanks Pete .