On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:40:46 -0500
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 07:04:11PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
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> I added libvdpau as an input to mpv, mplayer, and vlc. Here are the
> results.
> 
> It seems to have worked for mpv, with ldd reporting a link to the VDPAU
> library in the store.
> 
> It also seems to work for vlc, although it appears as a plugin in vlc's
> store directory rather than a dynamic link.
> 
> The mplayer build while compiling the "mencoder" output like this:
> libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.o: In function `set_format_params':
> vd_ffmpeg.c:(.text+0x601): undefined reference to
> `av_alloc_vdpaucontext'
> libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.o: In function `update_configuration.isra.2':
> vd_ffmpeg.c:(.text+0xcf9): undefined reference to
> `av_alloc_vdpaucontext'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status 
> Makefile:750: recipe for target 'mencoder' failed
> make: *** [mencoder] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.o: In function `set_format_params':
> vd_ffmpeg.c:(.text+0x601): undefined reference to
> `av_alloc_vdpaucontext'
> libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.o: In function `update_configuration.isra.2':
> vd_ffmpeg.c:(.text+0xcf9): undefined reference to
> `av_alloc_vdpaucontext'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status 
> Makefile:750: recipe for target 'mplayer' failed
> make: *** [mplayer] Error 1
> phase `build' failed after 32.3 seconds
> 
> I can't truly test mpv or vlc because I don't have any hardware that
> supports VDPAU. I guess the error message I read a few days wasn't
> relevant.
> 

here's what I got on mpv with vdpau as an input:
Playing: /home/efraim/Videos/Haman_Song_-_a_Purim_rap--vTLxpz9HKs.mp4
 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=und (*) (aac)
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vo/vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
Video: no video

efraim@debian-netbook:~/workspace/guix$ vdpauinfo
display: :0.0   screen: 0
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error creating VDPAU device: 1

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