[Bug 808254] Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so

[Paul Jackson]

What I see (happens to be in English) is:
"Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

This is on Firefox 11.10, Kubuntu 11.10, with an ATI Radeon card (not an
NVidia).

Flash works fine within the browser.

Strace'ing and grep'ing around in binaries, not in source,, I'd guess
(could be wrong) that the error comes from /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1 trying
to find "%slibvdpau_%s.so%s",  where the second "%s" is "nvidia", where
I have no such libvdpau_nvidia.so file.

One possible interacting detail -- my $HOME/.macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/settings.sol
file, in fact the entire $HOME/.macromedia/Flash_Player sub-directory tree, has been repeatedly removed and rebuilt in whatever way it is automatically rebuilt when Firefox is restarted and that sub-directory tree is missing.  I do this removal automatically on a routine basis, as part of my effort to improve macromedia flash security.

I notice from the strace that the above settings.sol file is referenced
just before the failed efforts to find an instance of
libvdpau_nvidia.so are attempted.

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  Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so

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