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

[Ron Johnson]

On 10/25/2011 08:41 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 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;-)
>
> [...]
>
>> 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.
>

Only an expert in mplayer source code interprets 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2011-October/083521.html 
that way.

Anyway, what *is* 9b7a0c5d and from where did you glean it?  It's not in 
my original mplayer output...

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