Just to note, if I login using Wayland, mplayer plays the video correctly. On Wayland, some error messages appear but it seems to fallback to a correct decoder:
X11 error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 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 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family libavcodec version 58.91.100 (external) Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1927773 Title: Can't play video X.org on Ubuntu 21.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/1927773/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs