Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 05/09/12 09:35 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 10:24:52PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > unarchive 617940
> > reopen 617940
> > thanks
> >
> > This bug still exists.
> >
> > See message:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/09/msg00009.html
> >
> > and despite that it says there are no followups there are!, starting
> > at:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/09/msg00009.html
> >
> > The reason(s) for this bug being reopened are all the associated messages.
> > It appears this bug was closed in error.
>
> This doesn't look like an error to me. You note that you are able to
> play videos fine. Have you also raised bugs for mplayer's other
> auto-detect messages? Such as:
>
> [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
> [VO_TDFXFB] This driver only supports the 3Dfx Banshee, Voodoo3 and
> Voodoo 5.
> [VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
>
> As you can see, mplayer tries various drivers before it gets to yours.
> You can either configure your mplayer correctly or put up with it
> autodetecting.


  My Mplayer was configured correctly...but libvdpau1 (which mplayer 
depends on) insisted on looking for an NVidia-related driver, as does 
other software. The bug is in libvdpau1, not mplayer.



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Cheers
Frank