Bruce Dubbs wrote: > We recently added the libvdpau driver for GPU aided HW acceleration. It > builds fine and other applications link to it appropriately. However, > when running something like MPlayer that uses it, I get a message: > > 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 > > My searches seemed to indicate that the libvdpau_nvidia.so library is > loaded with the nvidia proprietary drivers. I also found the comment: > > Nvidia devs recommend packagers to separate libvdpau from the > proprietary nvidia kernel and driver installers as vdpau will we removed > "real soon now" > > but that comment is about a year old. > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/fresh-installation-of-slackware-14-rc2-libvdpau_nvidia-so-not-built-4175423181/ > > I also found: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2009-September/001036.html > > where it says: To actually use a VDPAU device, you need > a vendor-specific implementation library. Currently, this is always > libvdpau_nvidia. You can override the driver name by setting the > VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable. > > My video is "NVIDIA Corporation NV37GL [Quadro PCI-E Series]", but it > does noot seem that libvdpau is doing anything for me. Should this be > removed from the book? Or, perhaps a note saying it is only useful in > conjunction with the proprietary nvidia drivers?
I've successfully used mplayer+libvdpau+nouveau combination. When libvdpau is built before Mesa, you should get /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so, which libvdpau should use instead of the default proprietary libvdpau_nvidia.so. Hardware video decoding is still work in progress for nouveau, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ for details. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
