Re: firefox compaining about missing library
On 2015-01-16 20:56 +0100, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday, January 16, 2015 12:07:14 PM Liam O'Toole did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> On 2015-01-16, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
>> > Greetings;
>> >
>> > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library?
>> > VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so?
>>
>> The library belongs to the mesa-vdpau-drivers package[1], which is not
>> available in wheezy, nor in wheezy-backports. It's used for
>> hardware-accerated video playback.
Not that nouveau does not provide video decoding unless you extract
proprietary and not readily available firmware from the NVIDIA blob[1].
> Humm, how incompatible would it be with the rest of wheezy?
Badly. It needs libllvm3.5 which is not available in wheezy, plus newer
versions of libc6 and libstdc++6.
Cheers,
Sven
1. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/
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