[MPlayer-users] Videos won't play with "Unexpected decoder output format Planar YV12"

[Ian Finley]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>
wrote:

On 17.11.2014, at 09:25, Ian Finley <sterlingphoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I use mplayer as the video player on my front-end HTPC.
> >
> > Lately, I've started having problems with some videos. They work fine on
> > other computers, just not that one. All my machines have the same version
> > of mplayer installed (MPlayer SVN-r37313 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team)and
> the
> > same configuration.
> >
> > When I play the videos on my HTPC, this is what happens in the terminal:
> >
> > [vdpau] Unexpected reinit, query_format called too often?
> > [vdpau] Failed creating VDPAU decoder: A catch-all error, used when no
> > other error code applies.
> > FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
>
> You're asking MPlayer to use VDPAU but that is not working on that computer
>

​Except that computer uses VDPAU for just about every other video. Has been
for years. It's the only way it can play hidef video. ​