Addendum: seems to be specific to videolan, mplayer looks better. I am not really sure the hardware is used, not a true expert on all of this, just reporting to help the real experts :;)
$>mplayer testvideo.mkv [...] [VS] Software VDPAU backend library initialized libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 Selected video codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 [libavcodec] Selected audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) [libavcodec] AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 128.0 kbit/4.17% (ratio: 16000->384000) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VIDEO: 720x404 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kB/s) VO: [vdpau] 720x404 => 720x404 Planar YV12 [...] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer-updates in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1442921 Title: Ubuntu-Proposed Catalyst fglrx* 2:15.200 missing link to fglrx_drv_video.so To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer-updates/+bug/1442921/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp