MPlayer can't find libvdpau

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#1

Not sure when this first happened but I suspect it was just a couple of days ago. I had installed DeVeDe to burn some video to disc and it all worked fine but now when I try to run DeVeDe it says it can’t find mplayer and you have to quit. I’ve tracked this back to mplayer and I’m getting this error from mplayer:

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libvdpau.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

libvdpau is installed so I don’t know why it can’t find the library.

I see there are issues with vdpau and nvidia but this shouldn’t be affecting me should it??
Any suggestions are welcome. I’ve updated everything with zypper but no joy…

#2

Please post result of

rpm -qi mplayer

#3

package mplayer is not installed

Hmmm… I’ll try a zypper install and see what happens perhaps. What do you think?

#4

Perhaps check this too
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide

#5

caf4926, this is case sensitive.

I think you meant:

rpm -qi MPlayer
#6

@oldcpu
That’s my 2nd mistake today.

You are of course correct

kernelcruncher@kernelcruncher:~> rpm -q mplayer
package mplayer is not installed
kernelcruncher@kernelcruncher:~> rpm -q MPlayer
MPlayer-1.0rc4_r31930-1.pm.3.1.x86_64
kernelcruncher@kernelcruncher:~>

Sorry @benbowc

#7

I was able to accidentally solve this, when I faced the same failure with “libvdpau.so.1” opening …

I did following steps …

zypper remove libvdpau*

which deinstalled also the nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop package

I removed also the mplayer application

zypper remove mplayer

and re-installed it once again, which also installed the libvdpau library

zypper in mplayer

after that, I reinstalled the nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop again as it was removed before …

zypper install nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop

after that mplayer was ok …