installing VDPAU on Fedora 20 ??

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:59 AM, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/13/2014 10:14 AM, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:10 AM, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On F20:
>>>
>>> mesa-vdpau-drivers-10.1.5-1.20140607.fc20.x86_64
>>> libvdpau-0.7-1.fc20.x86_64
>>> vdpauinfo-0.1-1.fc20.x86_64
>>>
>>> /usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so.1
>>> /usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so.1.0.0
>>>
>>> Xorg.0.log:  RADEON(0): Chipset: "KAVERI" (ChipID = 0x1318)
>>>
>>> dmesg:
>>> [drm] UVD initialized successfully.
>>> ...
>>> [drm] VCE initialized successfully.
>>>
>>> But
>>>
>>> export VDPAU_DRIVER=radeonsi; vdpauinfo
>>
>>
>> You don't need to set the VDPAU_DRIVER env var.  The ddx already
>> passes the appropriate driver name via dri2 just like 3d.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>> display: :0.0   screen: 0
>>> Error creating VDPAU device: 23
>>>
>>> and X log has no reference to vdpau:
>>>
>>> # grep -i vdpau /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>> #
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> sean
>>>
>
> Thanks, but:
>
> # unset VDPAU_DRIVER
> # vdpauinfo
> display: :0.0   screen: 0
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> Error creating VDPAU device: 1
>
> But in any case, what do I need to do to set up vdpau ? Or is it not
> available on kaveri?

It works fine on kaveri.  I'm not entirely sure how RH packages vdpau
for fedora.  Make sure you install the mesa-vdpau-drivers package.

Alex