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

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

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

> >> But libvdpau is explicitly throwing a "Failed creating VDPAU *decoder*".
> >
> > Are you trying to explain to Reimar how -vc ff*vdpau works?
> 
> Definitely not.  I should have expressed my thoughts more clearly, 
> especially on an inter-cultural list.

Don't worry;-)

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> When you write "by MPlayer design", presumably that means that it would 
> be scarily difficult to try a new codec if the VO fails?

No, as Reimar said, you have to port 9b7a0c5d to h264, vc1 and mpeg4.

Carl Eugen