(In reply to comment #11)

> I had some dvds laying around and those had no issues and downloaded other
> mpeg2 clips too and those too worked fine with vdpau decoding, but with this
> particular clip vdpau messed stuff up badly.
> 
> I found a link for the clip here:
> https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/399
> 
> This is the direct download link, its a mpeg2 clip, around 20MB:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?4dvvwj5aw2esv49

I think this file is exceptional and so it not working is probably unrelated to
whatever issue others are seeing.

It doesn't work because vdpau doesn't support field coded mpeg2. I guess
because it is very rare - other than compliance streams this is the first one
I've seen in the wild, and given it's mpeg2 in mkv with ac3 and the cartoon
content is a mix of progressive and interlaced (maybe from telecine and frame
rate converted) I don't know if it's an amateur creation or something "real".