It almost seems like your vdpau is not working correct / not installed correctly. Maybe a package update clobbered part of it? Or maybe the nvidia driver isn't being used at the moment? I'd start by reinstalling both of those. Dan On 11/19/2014 01:16 AM, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > Ok, this is a weird one... > > Lately I've been finding some videos are not playable using mplayer on my media center > frontend. Which is kind of, you know. It's job. These videos pretty much hang with the > message: > > Unexpected decoder output format Planar YV12 > > repeated constantly. > > Now the funny thing is they play just fine on another machine, with hthe same version of > Ubuntu, same version of mplayer, same version of the nvidia binary driver, same vdpau, etc. > > The only difference I can find is this. When I run "vdpauinfo" on the media center, I > get (among other results) this: > > Decoder capabilities: > > name level macbs width height > ------------------------------------------- > MPEG1 0 8192 2048 2048 > MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 8192 2048 2048 > MPEG2_MAIN 3 8192 2048 2048 > H264_MAIN 41 8190 2032 2048 > H264_HIGH 41 8190 2032 2048 > VC1_SIMPLE 1 8190 2048 2048 > VC1_MAIN 2 8190 2048 2048 > VC1_ADVANCED 4 8190 2048 2048 > > > On the machine that IS capable of playing the videos, I get all those and in addition > get these: > > MPEG4_PART2_SP 3 8192 2048 2048 > MPEG4_PART2_ASP 5 8192 2048 2048 > DIVX4_QMOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048 > DIVX4_MOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048 > DIVX4_HOME_THEATER 0 8192 2048 2048 > DIVX4_HD_1080P 0 8192 2048 2048 > DIVX5_QMOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048 > DIVX5_MOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048 > DIVX5_HOME_THEATER 0 8192 2048 2048 > DIVX5_HD_1080P 0 8192 2048 2048 > > > > This is the only difference I can find. And I have NO IDEA where it's coming from, or if > it has anything to do with anything, or if ANY of this makes any kind of sense. > > Anyone have any ideas?... > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list