[MPlayer-users] Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so

[Emanuel Berg]

Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> MPlayer does not assume you have an NVidia card (and
> neither does the message come from MPlayer, but from
> libvdpau I guess, which being a project started by
> NVidia has reasonable reason to assume you use
> NVidia when it can't find any other working
> implementation). It just tries all methods to output
> video it knows about, with the most efficient ones
> first. If the result of that auto-detection works
> for you and you don't want to change actual
> behaviour (I think everyone thought you wanted VDPAU
> to work) I see two options 1) Just ignore the
> messages from the probing 2) Figure out which VO it
> actually selects in the end (I suspect xv) and
> specify that explicitly (e.g. -vo xv).
> Same behaviour minus irrelevant messages.

I don't really care what technology is at work as long
as it works. I tought the NVidia error message was
indicative of something failing that should be fixed,
but if you say there is no need to I'm fine with that.
If VDPAU more closely corresponds to my hardware I'd
like to use that, of course, but if it associated with
other problems such as the tty/X crash I can't have
that happening, for sure.

OK, '-vo xv' doesn't give any error messages and so
far hasn't crashed either. I've said that before, but
some time must be the last :)

Thank you!

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