[mythtv-users] VDPAU failing on an ION

Mon Nov 21 01:01:50 UTC 2016

On 21 November 2016 at 04:56, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using mythtv fixes/0.27 [v0.27.6-27-g3783dc8 on an ION which has
> previously had no troubles with VDPAU, I'm getting the following
> errors:
>
> Nov 20 12:17:26 pvr-lr mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[3468]: E CoreContext mythrender_vdpau.cpp:1581 (CreateDevice) VDPAU: Error at mythrender_vdpau.cpp:1581 (#1, Unknown)
> Nov 20 12:17:26 pvr-lr mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[3468]: E CoreContext mythrender_vdpau.cpp:1585 (CreateDevice) VDPAU: Failed to create VDPAU device.
> Nov 20 12:17:26 pvr-lr mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[3468]: E CoreContext mythrender_vdpau.cpp:412 (Create) VDPAU: No VDPAU device
> Nov 20 12:17:26 pvr-lr mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[3468]: E CoreContext mythrender_vdpau.cpp:428 (Create) VDPAU: Failed to create VDPAU render device.
> Nov 20 12:17:26 pvr-lr mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[3468]: E CoreContext videoout_vdpau.cpp:158 (InitRender) VidOutVDPAU: Failed to initialise VDPAU
>
> The machine does have a working VDPAU:
>
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/nvidia-304/vdpau/ DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo
> display: :0   screen: 0
> API version: 1
> Information string: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  304.132  Fri Sep 16 11:46:31 PDT 2016

did you start mythfrontend with setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/nvidia-304/vdpau/ as well?