[MPlayer-users] Acceleration works in xbmc, not in mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 09.09.2014, at 20:04, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When I do that, I get:
>>> 
>>> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared
>>> object file: No such file or directory
>>> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
>>> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
>> 
>> There is a command line tool, vdpauinfo. When this runs correctly, it
>> will output what VDPAU features your hardware supports
> 
> 
> $ vdpauinfo
> display: :0.0   screen: 0
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> Error creating VDPAU device: 1
> 
> 
>> When you can run vdpauinfo and get a similar output, mplayer will work
>> correctly. I suspect there are more configuration steps to get
>> vdpau-va-gl to work correctly than just installing the package - this
>> page [1] says you must set VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl in your environment; did
>> you do that?
> 
> 
> After exporting that variable, the error changes:
> 
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> 
> I have libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4 and libvdpau-0.8 installed.

You obviously need to install libvdpau_va_gl in order to use it.
The libva-vdpau-driver is the other way round, you can remove that one.