[MPlayer-users] VDPAU decoding in MPlayer broken by recent FFmpeg changes

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:27:19PM +0200, Ilja Sekler wrote:
> Am 07.08.2013 21:36, schrieb Reimar Döffinger:
> 
> >I managed to test the MPEG-2 variant and it "worked" i.e. it decoded
> >fine, but it printed an error about an invalid handle about once per
> >frame. I don't know if that is due to the pseudo-VDPAU that Mesa
> >implements for AMD cards or if something is wrong.
> 
> I can confirm this behavior for a real and powerful Nvidia hardware
> and recent Nvidia drivers. I get
> 
> [vdpau] Failed VDPAU decoder rendering: An invalid pointer was provided.

Wished there was more useful information, I don't really know what goes
wrong there.

> too. Besides of that, the MPEG-2 video plays fine. No luck with h264.

I missed that vdpau_h264 needs an update, too, so H.264 could not work.
You could try with the updated patch from the FFmpeg list (or just
copy-paste the change from vdpau.c to vdpau_h264.c).