No Audio from media players

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/09/2012 01:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 01:11 PM, JD wrote:
>> I can get audio when I play  videos  on firefox (youtube, ...etc).
>> But vlc and mplayer issue this message into ~/.xsession-error
>>
>> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r300.so: cannot open shared object file:
>> No such file or directory
>> Running DIL (3.6.0) Version
>> DtsDeviceOpen: Opening HW in mode 0
>> DtsDeviceOpen: Create File Failed
>> ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection
>> refused
>>
>> Also, there is no pulseaudio daemon running.
>> Tried to  start it but got:
>> $ pulseaudio --start
>> E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
>>
> You are running Fedora ??
>
> Well, there is no libvdpau_r300.so on my system and "yum whatprovides
> */libvdpau_r300.so" returns nothing.....
>
> What do you get when you "ldd /usr/bin/mplayer | grep libvdpau" ?
>
> I don't get any reference to libvdpau_r300.so.  Only....
>
> libvdpau.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1 (0x4b827000)
>

Also, I believe, libvdpau is for "video" anyway....

libvdpau-0.4.1-4.fc15.i686 : Wrapper library for the Video Decode and Presentation
                           : API
Repo        : @fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1

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