I have the same problem on Ubuntu 20.04 with a ATI Radeon HD5770.
Setting VDPAU_DRIVER=none works here, too.
--
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 Ub
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: libvdpau (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
--
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:
C
** Package changed: mplayer (Ubuntu) => libvdpau (Ubuntu)
--
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
As a workaround, I added to my .bashrc
export VDPAU_DRIVER=none
This way, it gives an error and fallbacks correctly to ffmpeg on X.org
--
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:
Ok, it fails both in X.org and in Wayland. In X.org it fails by default
and it seems Wayland works because it tries to incorrectly load the
nvidia driver...
I looked into what vdpau drivers there are in the system (ls -lah
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/*so)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Apr 7 11:1
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
** Package changed: ubuntu => mplayer (Ubuntu)
--
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:
http
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a
specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu
in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source
packages so that people
