[GTALUG] VLC unable to play video

[Tom Low-Shang]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 09:11:29PM -0400, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> Hi all... After a recent upgrade this week on a box running Debian
> stretch/testing the VLC media player continues to successfully play audio
> MP3 files but crashes trying to play video files with the message:
> 
> "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> Segmentation fault"
> 
> VDPAU packages installed and their versions:
> 
> ii  libvdpau-va-gl1:amd64                 0.3.4-3
> ii  libvdpau1:amd64                       1.1.1-2
> ii  mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64              11.0.2-1
> ii  vdpau-driver-all:amd64                1.1.1-2
> ii  vdpau-va-driver:amd64                 0.7.4-4
> 
> No updates are pending. Any ideas about how to fix this would be much
> appreciated!

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801457

The reporter "removed the vdpau libraries". I would un-install the vdpau 
packages instead. Hopefully the CPU can handle the video decoding.



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