Fedora 12 - Anyone using mplayer + vdpau?

[john wendel]

On 12/14/2009 07:29 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just moved to Fedora 12 (finally) and I enabled the RPM Fusion repo in order
> to install the nvidia driver plus mplayer (and all its dependencies) in order
> to see if I could finally use mplayer with vdpau (in order to offload h.264
> playback to the GPU).
>
> Unfortunately when I play some h.264 material I get:
> [vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
>
> I chechked all the packages that were installed (after requesting the nvidia
> driver):
>
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686
> kmod-nvidia-PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
>
> ...but none of them provide this file.  Is there a way around this? ...before
> going the mplayer compilation route :(
>
> Thanks,
> Jorge
>

Working here with F11 and latest beta Nvidia driver downloaded from 
Nvidia. It installed,

> libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 -> libvdpau_nvidia.so.195.22

I'm using the latest mplayer for F11

> MPlayer SVN-r29701-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Maybe your nvidia libs are too old ?  I don't think you'll fix anything 
by compiling mplayer.

Regards,

John