vlc can't take a snapshot of video

Bug #1608232 reported by Cepreu-mail
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
VLC media player
Unknown
Unknown
vlc (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Specify in settings folder where to place snapshots.
2. Open an video.
3. Press button "Take a snapshot" or use menu entry.

Expected results:
Image in specified folder.

Actual results:
No image there.

Additional info:
I have such output in console when use this button:
[00007f86408ae178] core filter error: Failed to create video filter2
[00007f86408afdc8] vdpau_chroma filter error: corrupt VDPAU video surface 0x7f85ec00d8c0
[00007f860c01ad58] core video output error: Failed to convert image for snapshot

Just for comparison:
Snapshots from SMPlayer on my system works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: vlc 2.2.2-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jul 31 23:41:19 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-21 (588 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-07-30 (1 days ago)

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Cepreu-mail (cepreu-mail) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Angel Candelaria (angelsguitar) wrote :

Workaround: Disable hardware acceleration

Reference: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=129067

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher) wrote :

Fixed in 3.0.0

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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