Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend for mplayer2.
On 2012-03-18 19:31 +0100, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Using mplayer2 for playing video files I get this error always:
>
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r300.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory [vdpau] Error when calling
> vdp_device_create_x11: 1
>
> In order to solve it I tried to find a package that has
>
> libvdpau_r300.so
>
> file but w/ no luck.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656719.
> Do You have any idea how I can make use of VDPAU w/ mplayer2 on my
> system (testing, video ATI X1100)?
You have to build mesa 8.0 or later with "--enable-vdpau" yourself.
However, it's probably not really worth it, since the mesa drivers
currently only implement the "P" part of VDPAU, while the more
interesting "D" part is only possible with the Nvidia blob.
A few weeks ago I tried vdpau with nouveau, and while it works, CPU load
is not any lower than with other backends.
Sven
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