Don't understand error message

[jacatone]

I'm using Lubuntu 10. When I try playing a wmv video, I get the following error message: "Failed to open VDPAU backen libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory." How do I fix this? Thanks.

[LXNevermind]

You know what google is?

First answer:
http://vsingleton.blogspot.com/2010/02/ ... ckend.html

[amjjawad]

You know what google is?

You could have posted:

Google is your best friend

I'm glad to see active members on this forum. Please keep it up!
Thanks for your support.

[jacatone]

I did find this link on Google but it didn't seem to work. I'm using gnome-player and not mplayer. Mplayer on my machine just plays sound and no video.

[amjjawad]

I did find this link on Google but it didn't seem to work. I'm using gnome-player and not mplayer. Mplayer on my machine just plays sound and no video.

http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer

Is this the player you are talking about??

[LXNevermind]

Did you try this?

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Anonymous said...

    The proper fix in Ubuntu Linux (up to 11.04 at least) for this problem is to do the following, as root:
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    rm /usr/lib/libvdpau.so
    rm /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1
    rm /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1.0.0

    ln -s /etc/alternatives/libvdpau_nvidia.so /usr/lib/libvdpau.so
    ln -s /etc/alternatives/libvdpau_nvidia.so /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1
    ln -s /etc/alternatives/libvdpau_nvidia.so /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1.0.0

    ldconfig
    --------------------------
    In other words point /usr/lib/libvdpau soft links to /etc/alternatives/libvdpau_nvidia.so, which in turn points to the currently installed nvidia vdpau modules.

    tobreme 2011-05-09