VDPAU support for the GeForce 8 and 9 series is available in Ubuntu 13.10. VDPAU support for GeForce 400 and later hardware has been available since Ubuntu 13.04 but note that Ubuntu 13.04 is no longer officially supported - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases VDPAU support for the GeForce 200, 300 series is available in Ubuntu 14.04. Note that in all cases you will also need to extract the firmware from the NVIDIA binary driver. See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ for further details
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libva in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642907 Title: failed to open VA API with NVIDIA VDPAU backend Status in “libva” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: vlc lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch) Release: 10.10 VLC 1.1.4 Libva 1.0.1-3 when running VLC, trying to use VAAPI, I get this error: libva: libva version 0.31.0 Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so libva: va_openDriver() returns -1 [0x1fdfd50] avcodec decoder warning: Failed to open VA API The result is that VLC is running, but HD-content is shown in a very bad quality (missing frames) Using vainfo I get this report: libva: libva version 0.31.0 Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so libva: va_openDriver() returns -1 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: vlc 1.1.4-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.32-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Sep 19 17:56:53 2010 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_DK.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: vlc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libva/+bug/642907/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
