Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates package

vdpau missing

Bug #1268312 reported by Brian J. Murrell
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

It seems that while the libvdpau_nvidia library is available for nvidia-current:

/usr/lib/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.295.40

So such driver is available for nvidia-173-updates.

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

The nvidia 173 driver is meant to support GeForce FX 5 through GeForce 7000 series cards. These cards do have some video acceleration, but they do not support libvdpau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo#Nvidia_VDPAU_Feature_Sets

Although the 173.xx driver does support GeForce 8000 - GT/X 200 series cards, users of those cards should be using the 304.xx branch for optimum support (including VDPAU).

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

Ubuntu 14.04/Trusty has reached End of Life (EoL) for standard support and the nvidia-173 package is not included in the Extended Security Maintenance plan: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/ESM/14.04#A14.04_Infrastructure_ESM_Packages

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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