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

[Emanuel Berg]

Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> writes:

> Assuming you are actually trying to use VDPAU and
> not trying to NOT use it (you forgot to mention what
> your goal was exactly)

The goal is to fix the problem that error message
is indicating.

> you need to direct it to use a different driver than
> NVidia:
>
> VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl; export VDPAU_DRIVER

Yes, that changed the output, however:

Failed to read /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf.local: No such file or directory
Warning unknown option include at line 177
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] This driver only supports the 3Dfx Banshee, Voodoo3 and Voodoo 5.
s3fb: Couldn't map S3 registers: Operation not permitted
libva info: VA-API version 0.36.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_36
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

- all this is stderr. The libva stuff sounds good
("return 0") but is reported as errors.

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