Fedora 12 - Anyone using mplayer + vdpau?

[Jorge Fábregas]

Hello everyone,

I just moved to Fedora 12 (finally) and I enabled the RPM Fusion repo in order 
to install the nvidia driver plus mplayer (and all its dependencies) in order 
to see if I could finally use mplayer with vdpau (in order to offload h.264 
playback to the GPU).

Unfortunately when I play some h.264 material I get:
[vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1

I chechked all the packages that were installed (after requesting the nvidia 
driver):

kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-5.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-5.fc12.i686
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686
kmod-nvidia-PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686

...but none of them provide this file.  Is there a way around this? ...before 
going the mplayer compilation route :(

Thanks,
Jorge

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jorge Fábregas writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just moved to Fedora 12 (finally) and I enabled the RPM Fusion repo in order 
> to install the nvidia driver plus mplayer (and all its dependencies) in order 
> to see if I could finally use mplayer with vdpau (in order to offload h.264 
> playback to the GPU).
>
> Unfortunately when I play some h.264 material I get:
> [vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
>
> I chechked all the packages that were installed (after requesting the nvidia 
> driver):
>
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686
> kmod-nvidia-PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
>
> ...but none of them provide this file.  Is there a way around this? ...before 
> going the mplayer compilation route :(

Ummm…

Did you try "yum install libvdpau"?

[Ed Greshko]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jorge Fábregas writes:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I just moved to Fedora 12 (finally) and I enabled the RPM Fusion repo
> > in order to install the nvidia driver plus mplayer (and all its
> > dependencies) in order to see if I could finally use mplayer with
> > vdpau (in order to offload h.264 playback to the GPU).
> >
> > Unfortunately when I play some h.264 material I get:
> > [vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
> >
> > I chechked all the packages that were installed (after requesting the
> > nvidia driver):
> >
> > kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> > nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686
> > kmod-nvidia-PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> > nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
> >
> > ...but none of them provide this file.  Is there a way around this?
> > ...before going the mplayer compilation route :(
>
> Ummm…
>
> Did you try "yum install libvdpau"?

And, for future reference, a "yum whatprovides libvdpau.so.1" would have
provided the answer.

[John Wendel]

On 12/14/2009 07:29 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just moved to Fedora 12 (finally) and I enabled the RPM Fusion repo in order
> to install the nvidia driver plus mplayer (and all its dependencies) in order
> to see if I could finally use mplayer with vdpau (in order to offload h.264
> playback to the GPU).
>
> Unfortunately when I play some h.264 material I get:
> [vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
>
> I chechked all the packages that were installed (after requesting the nvidia
> driver):
>
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686
> kmod-nvidia-PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
>
> ...but none of them provide this file.  Is there a way around this? ...before
> going the mplayer compilation route :(
>
> Thanks,
> Jorge

Working here with F11 and latest beta Nvidia driver downloaded from 
Nvidia. It installed,
> libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 -> libvdpau_nvidia.so.195.22

I'm using the latest mplayer for F11
> MPlayer SVN-r29701-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Maybe your nvidia libs are too old ?  I don't think you'll fix anything 
by compiling mplayer.

Regards,

John

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Tuesday 15 December 2009 03:29:00 Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Unfortunately when I play some h.264 material I get:
> [vdpau] Could not open dynamic library libvdpau.so.1
>
> I chechked all the packages that were installed (after requesting the
>  nvidia driver):
>
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.42-5.fc12.i686
> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686
> kmod-nvidia-PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
> nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
>
> ...but none of them provide this file.  Is there a way around this?

I don't use vdpau myself, but yum whatprovides *libvdpau.so gives the 
following info:

libvdpau-devel-0.2-1.fc12.x86_64 : Development files for libvdpau
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libvdpau.so

libvdpau-devel-0.2-1.fc12.i686 : Development files for libvdpau
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib/libvdpau.so

So I guess you need to "yum install libvdpau-devel".

HTH, :-)
Marko

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Monday 14 December 2009 23:39:49 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ummm…
>
> Did you try "yum install libvdpau"?

Ahhhhh thanks a million Sam!   Shame on me!!!   That one got me.  I never 
thought it was as simple as that...My mistake thinking something was crippled 
(in the dependencies).  I was like... "why if this is essential to 
mplayer..why isn't there...?" but duh....  Not everyone that has an Nvidia 
card it's going to use mplayer or viceversa.

Got it working now... I love this (to playback any h.264 video and not seeing 
mplayer eating 100 % of my CPU).

Thanks again!
Jorge

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Monday 14 December 2009 23:45:59 Ed Greshko wrote:
> And, for future reference, a "yum whatprovides libvdpau.so.1" would have
> provided the answer.

Right on. Thanks Ed.  Yes, I missed that one :)