[MPlayer-users] Video codec fall-back doesn't work with vdpau?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson <at> cox.net> writes:

> On 10/25/2011 03:49 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Because the codec is working fine, the errors are from the vo.
> 
> But libvdpau is explicitly throwing a "Failed creating VDPAU *decoder*".

Are you trying to explain to Reimar how -vc ff*vdpau works?

Above error message is shown by -vo vdpau if the initialization of the decoding
hardware fails, At that time, it is (by MPlayer design) too late to change the
MPlayer decoder (that is working fine).

Carl Eugen