Same issue here with VLC and 15.04.
Prior to the upgrade the laptop hypbrid card didn't work as expected; the nvidia driver was never used. This was fixed in 15.04
lspci | grep VGA shows
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1)
vlc works ok, but I get may errors about libvdpau_i965.so
....Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so.....
Same issue here with VLC and 15.04.
Prior to the upgrade the laptop hypbrid card didn't work as expected; the nvidia driver was never used. This was fixed in 15.04
lspci | grep VGA shows
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1)
vlc works ok, but I get may errors about libvdpau_i965.so
....Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_ i965.so. ....