I only thought to mention the PPA to indicate that the bug still occurs even in fairly bleeding edge Mesa code. I also still think it's either something wrong with gstreamer-vaapi, or something that gstreamer-vaapi is doing different from what mpv does for the same exact video. It should probably be reported to upstream Mesa, just in case it really is their bug.
I only thought to mention the PPA to indicate that the bug still occurs even in fairly bleeding edge Mesa code. I also still think it's either something wrong with gstreamer-vaapi, or something that gstreamer-vaapi is doing different from what mpv does for the same exact video. It should probably be reported to upstream Mesa, just in case it really is their bug.