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[Bug 1374825] Re: VDPAU does not work in libav on Utopic

 

This seems to be due to an API change in libav.  They dropped the old
API for using VDPAU decoding, which broke every application that uses
VDPAU through libav.  https://libav.org/releases/libav-10.5.release

** Also affects: vlc (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: mplayer (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: mplayer2 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: libav (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Also affects: mpv (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  VDPAU does not work in libav on Utopic

Status in “libav” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “mplayer” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “mplayer2” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “mpv” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “vlc” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After upgrading a Kubuntu Trusty x86_64 system to Utopic, VDPAU
  support has stopped working in all applications that use libav.  In
  mplayer2, it prints "Cannot find codec 'h264_vdpau' in libavcodec..."
  and in VLC I get "[00007f9090000958] vdpau_avcodec generic error:
  decoder profile not supported: 6".

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