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Don't understand error message
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:20 pm
by 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.
Re: Don't understand error message
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:13 pm
by LXNevermind
Re: Don't understand error message
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:39 pm
by amjjawad
LXNevermind wrote: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.
Re: Don't understand error message
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:54 pm
by 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.
Re: Don't understand error message
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:41 am
by amjjawad
jacatone wrote: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??
Re: Don't understand error message
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:04 pm
by 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
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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