compiling mplayer on F12 with vdpau support

[Lonni J Friedman]

Fedora doesn't ship the NVIDIA display driver package.  You can google
to see the lengthy reasons why.

VDPAU will not work with the 'nouveau' driver.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> If all I need is the nvidia display driver package why wasn't it installed
> when I instlled F12 on my system given that I have an nvidia card?  A couple
> of other issues, first there are no nvidia related packages in the F12
> repositories that I can find. Second I'm running the nouveau display
> driver.
>
> Paolo
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to compile mplayer on F12 and I've encountered a problem.
>> > I've
>> > installed the vdpau packages from the F12 repositories, but when I try
>> > to
>> > configure mplayer with vdpau support it indicates there is no support
>> > for
>> > it.  Here is the test program from the configure script.
>> >
>> > #include <vdpau/vdpau_x11.h>
>> > int main(void) {
>> >     (void) vdp_device_create_x11(0, 0, 0, 0);
>> >     return VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_HIGH_QUALITY_SCALING_L1; }
>> >
>> > The compiles fine:
>> >
>> > gcc -o vdp vdp.c -lvdpau
>> >
>> > but when you run it you get:
>> >
>> > ./vdp
>> > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
>> > object
>> > file: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > Running
>> >
>> > ldd ./vdp
>> >
>> > shows:
>> >
>> >     linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffb0dff000)
>> >     libvdpau.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libvdpau.so.1 (0x00007fb918e84000)
>> >     libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003fa8400000)
>> >     libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003fa8800000)
>> >     /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003fa8000000)
>> >
>> > there is no reference to libvdpau_nvidia.so.
>> >
>> > A search of the repositories shows no matches for this library.
>> >
>> > Any ideas what I'm missing?
>>
>>
>> libvdpau_nvidia.so ships with the NVIDIA display driver package.
>> There's no need to install anything other than that to build mplayer
>> with vdpau support.


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