[mythtv-users] Latest Update Breaks Mythtv 9.04 / JYA Testing

[Jarod Wilson]

On Saturday 03 October 2009 16:57:26 John Drescher wrote:
> > Did an update this morning which included NVIDIA 190.36 (seemed same for
> > same!) and another NVIDIA file plus some other stuff....and....backend wont
> > start now.
> >
> > mythbackend: error while loading shared libraries: libvdpau.so.1: cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > This is on Mythbunutu 9.04 using JYA Testing
> >
> > If this sounds like you too, might pay not to do any updates until someone
> > can clarify what's happened here.
> >
> 
> I read in the nv forum that nVidia is breaking vdpau out to a separate
> package from the nvidia drivers. Where did you update to 190.36 from?
> Note that I could be wrong about this I do not use ubuntu.

libvdpau has been a stand-alone library for quite a while now.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau/

The RPM Fusion svn trunk packages are built using this rather than any
bits from nVidia's driver packages, and work fine for me.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com