"[00007f9090000958] vdpau_avcodec generic error: decoder profile not supported: 6" means that:
1) your libavcodec installation does support VDPAU properly, and 2 ) your VDPAU driver does not support H.264 decoding at all (or reports incorrect capabilities). Closing as invalid. ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libav in Ubuntu. 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: New Status in “mplayer2” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “mpv” package in Ubuntu: New 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/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp