Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 14.10 (utopic) reached end-of-life on July 23, 2015.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed. ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix ** Changed in: mplayer2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Studio Bugs, which is subscribed to libav in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu Studio Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1374825 Title: VDPAU does not work in libav on Utopic Status in libav package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in mplayer package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in mplayer2 package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in mpv package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in vlc package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: After upgrading a Kubuntu Trusty x86_64 system to Utopic, VDPAU support has stopped working in all applications that use libav. In mplayer2, it prints "Cannot find codec 'h264_vdpau' in libavcodec..." and in VLC I get "[00007f9090000958] vdpau_avcodec generic error: decoder profile not supported: 6". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/1374825/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

