Thursday, October 7, 2010

GNOME-MPlayer Error: (VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so)

Error: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The above error occurred in my gnome-mplayer in Fedora 13 (I didn't get this error in Ubuntu 10.04) and I guess the problem is that I don't have the resource that it is looking for as its output. If you have NVIDIA Video driver you may have not encountered with the problem.

However, a little setting can sort out the problem as follows;

  • Open Edit -> Preferences or just press CTRL + P
  • That will open up the preferences and select the "Player" tab
  • Select (or enter) "xv" (without quotes) for the Video Output
  • Close preferences and try to open the video file again.

Your problem should have been resolved.

Good Luck!!!

5 comments:

Volodymyr said...
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Volodymyr said...

Thanks, man!
That helped me.
I had the same error message on EEE PC 901 under Ubuntu 10.10.
Now the error is gone.
Thanks again.

Unknown said...

Thank you, man !

It worked !

Tyler said...

This worked for me on ubuntu 10.10 Thank you!

MarcusShepherd said...

thanks it worked.
regards,
0ZERO aka Lord ZERO