Next round in my monolog:
I don't need my fix anymore, since I reacted to the compiler warnings concerning the parameters in avfilter_graph_parse
and adopted the Code to current ffmpeg Versions, the crashes are gone - even when using the denoise-Filter with 720p. Looks
like a very outdated ffmpeg version used by the people with no problems.
There is another flaw in the code: The Filter params are set to the config-value only after changing the value in the setup for the resolution of the current channel. At next reboot and when switching channels at least the denoise-Filter is always initialized with the default value (0.5).
This can be fixed by calling VaapiInitSurface(decoder) in VaapiSetupVideoProcessing after looping through the enabled filters.
To have 0 for disabling the filter and 1..99 as active filter params is ok IMHO, for the default I can set 50 as suggested in the menu. As denoise beside interlacing is the only filter suggested by my sandybridge hardware I am not able to visually tell if the settings really change the video appearance.