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Whenever I open GNOME MPlayer the attached error dialog appears. What can I do about it?
The error is:
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Solution: install the backend.
A casual google suggests that this error is associated with using the latest (often beta) drivers from nvidia instead of the distro packaged drivers - perhaps due to a different directory structure.
I get that error too when running under Fedora 13 with the nouveau driver (my system has on-board nvidia 9100 graphics). I ignore it, and haven't noticed any problems (but haven't tried playing a full-screen video yet)
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