Same issue here with VLC and 15.04. Prior to the upgrade the laptop hypbrid card didn't work as expected; the nvidia driver was never used. This was fixed in 15.04
lspci | grep VGA shows 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1) vlc works ok, but I get may errors about libvdpau_i965.so ....Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so..... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libvdpau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1300215 Title: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Status in libvdpau package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in libvdpau-va-gl package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in libvdpau package in Debian: New Bug description: This has been bothering me at least since precise (although there the missing link went to libvdpau_nvidia.so which was all the more mysterious since I do not own NVIDIA hardware). In numerous cases do I get a warning that libvdpau_i965.so is being tried to be accessed but it fails. I also can't find that file anywhere on my system or in the Ubuntu repository. I tried poking around with ldd to find out where the call to that lib comes from but so far unsuccessful. $ vdpauinfo display: :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 libvdpau1:i386 is version 0.7-1 and vdpauinfo is 0.1-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvdpau/+bug/1300215/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
