On Wednesday 29 December 2010 18:25:59 StarLion wrote: > > If you hunt through the below you'll notice mplayer doesn't even look for > > a video codec. It just reports no video stream. > > Not quite so. > > > VIDEO: [WVP2] 800x600 24bpp 1000.000 fps 31.8 kbps ( 3.9 kbyte/s) > > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or directory > > [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 > > I've seen this happen to me before. Some NVidia cards have something > on the card which helps when rendering video, and to make it work one > needs the VDPAU library. > Try disabling (or removing) it, and then as it's not encountering this > error, it should try to find a codec. >
I assume that reply is only relevant to Robert as the wife PC does not have an nvidia video card. I checked the wifes PC and libvdpau1 was installed which seems to be linked to mplayer, I removed the file (which also removed mplayer) but it made no difference, still can't play the video Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
