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yeti3871

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Registered: 2015-04-15

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Trouble with VDPAU with Nvidia Properitary Drivers

I've recently got arch on my machine, but I've been unable to get VDPAU to work as a hardware decoder for my media player.  I have installed and am running the latest Nvidia proprietary drivers along with the packages nvidia-utils, libvdpau, and lib32-libvdpau.  Also, vdpauinfo confirms that my GPU can support VDPAU.  I've read the wiki's page on VDPAU, but I'm entirely new to Arch and still somewhat new to linux, so I'm afraid some things may have gone over my head.

Last edited by yeti3871 (2015-04-16 00:46:25)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Trouble with VDPAU with Nvidia Properitary Drivers

What media player is it and how do you know it's not working? Please start it from the terminal and post the output, especially any relevant errors / warnings.

yeti3871

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Registered: 2015-04-15

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Re: Trouble with VDPAU with Nvidia Properitary Drivers

I'm using mpv with the option "--hwdec=vdpau" the error oput is:

Trying to use hardware decoding
[ffmpeg/video] h264: decode_slice_header error
[ffmpeg/video] h264: no frame!
Error while decoding frame!
Error using hardware decoding, falling back to software decoding. 

Last edited by yeti3871 (2015-04-16 21:03:15)