After the mesa and amd driver (r600) updates of today the program is still broken. However the error message in CLI changes for HD channel as follows (screen remains black): kaffeine 16-05-21 11:00:39.794 [Debug ] Icon theme "gnome" not found. 16-05-21 11:00:39.794 [Debug ] Icon theme "ubuntu-mono-dark" not found. 16-05-21 11:00:39.794 [Debug ] Icon theme "Mint-X" not found. 16-05-21 11:00:39.794 [Debug ] Icon theme "elementary" not found. 16-05-21 11:00:39.794 [Debug ] Icon theme "gnome" not found. 16-05-21 11:00:39.822 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "h" 16-05-21 11:00:39.822 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "help-all" 16-05-21 11:00:39.822 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "v" 16-05-21 11:00:40.471 [Info ] kaffeine.dvb: Using built-in dvb device manager 16-05-21 11:00:41.028 [Info ] kaffeine.dev: Found dvb device P14f188800070f038: Montage Technology M88RS6000 16-05-21 11:00:41.070 [Info ] kaffeine.dev: Found dvb device P14f188800070f038: Silicon Labs Si2168 [00007f0744006450] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v3.120.3 (API v120) libva info: VA-API version 1.11.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/r600_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_11 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 [00007f0744006450] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaDeriveImage: operation failed [00007f0750077800] main video output error: video output creation failed [00007f076402dab0] main decoder error: failed to create video output [00007f0744006450] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v3.120.3 (API v120) libva info: VA-API version 1.11.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/r600_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_11 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 [00007f076402dab0] avcodec decoder: Using OpenGL/VAAPI backend for VDPAU for hardware decoding [00007f0744006450] glconv_vdpau gl error: glVDPAUMapSurfacesNV failed: 0x502 [00007f0744006450] glconv_vdpau gl error: glVDPAUMapSurfacesNV failed: 0x502 [00007f0744006450] glconv_vdpau gl error: glVDPAUMapSurfacesNV failed: 0x502 [00007f0744006450] glconv_vdpau gl error: glVDPAUMapSurfacesNV failed: 0x502 where the latter spams the log constantly hereafter: [00007f0744006450] glconv_vdpau gl error: glVDPAUMapSurfacesNV failed: 0x502 So this fills the screen in seconds.