remove libvdpau from mplayer dependancies

[vervelover]

I have Nvidia geforce g105m video card, I use nvidia proprietary drivers, and having libvdpau installed on my system makes adobe flashplayer crash every time I watch a video. As I remove it the problem is gone. I wish I could use mplayer but I can't, because of its libvdpau dependancy. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit. Is it necessary to have mplayer depend on libvdpau? It just makes life harder and more unpredictable for a lot of nvidia users that like to use mplayer.

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

This sounds like more of a problem with the nvidia driver rather than have the dependency installed. If you card doesn't support vdpau then the driver should be trying to use libvdpau. What version of the driver do you have installed?

[vervelover (alessiopangos)]

my card should support vdpau, it's quite a new card with fair performances, the problem is vdpau is buggy and flashplayer tries to use it if it's installed, without a fallback in case it doesn't work. the version I use is the stock one in precise repos.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Have you tried disabling Flash hardware acceleration? (Right-click on a Flash video to find this preference.)

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this, but as Mplayer does not come installed on the default CD, this does not qualify as a papercut.

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Driver or Flash player issue.