Official support for Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat has ended. If this
is still occurring on Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" please open a new
bug report so that we can get a set of log files and system info, and
tell us what video card/chip you have.
** Tags added: maverick
** Changed in: mplayer
** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nividia.so
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Thanks for the video card/driver information.
I did do a search on more than Google and found nothing specific to my
situation.
Thanks for you help.
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Normally the expert guys here would recommend you to do a few google
searches to find the answer yourself... But since I am not an expert, I
think I can tell you. :)
try the command
lspci -nn | grep -i vga
in a terminal to see your video card type.
and try
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "nvid
Thanks, what is the terminal command to get the video card information.
Also I do not see a way to change the "video output option" in
system/preferences/monitors. Am I looking in the wrong place? again.
Thanks in advance. Bob.
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Bob, I think the problem is related to the video driver. In your case, Mplayer
was trying to call the VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) lib
to use GPU to help decoding your video but just found nothing there.
So please be more specific. Say, post your video card model, video driv
