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jessesherlock

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Registered: 2012-11-27

Posts: 2

VDPAU only working as root (Nvidia)

Just installed a fresh install of Arch on my thinkpad and was having some weird VDPAU issues.

Flash crashes (firefox and chromium)

mplayer (mpv) spits this out:

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vo/vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1

and falls back to the opengl VO

vainfo gives me this:

libva info: VA-API version 0.34.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
zsh: floating point exception (core dumped)  vainfo

*BUT* sudo mpv file.mp4 runs using vdpau normally, sudo vainfo spits back all the appropriate info.

I tried adding myself to the "video" group even though I thought that was no longer necessary and that had no result.

Anyone got any ideas?

botika

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Registered: 2013-07-12

Posts: 34

Re: VDPAU only working as root (Nvidia)

Thinkpad model is that? Because it seems that searches for vdpau intel. Please post stdout of

lspci -k | grep  -i "VGA"
pacman -Qs vdpau
ldd /usr/bin/mpv | grep vdpau

As looked with root using vdpau? My idea is that you have a computer with two graphics cards and not configured. But with information you posted I don't know. Please, for next time, post config or wiki the program in which you have the problem. Regards.