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Failed to initialize audio - Failed to open VDPAU backend - jaeger2000 - 2011-11-13
Hello,
Fresh install, XBMC on Ubuntu 11.10.
When trying to play media >~350MB, in the XBMC GUI I receive the following error message and no sound plays:
"Failed to initialize audio"
All sounds work fine in the desktop, using XBMC menu and media <350MB.
If launching XBMC from the command line, playing a <350MB file produced the error message:
"Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
This error makes sense as I don't have that video related file installed as I use an ATI graphics card.
Anyone solved this?
Dr Ian Gregory, Sydney.
- wsnipex - 2011-11-13
Disable VDPAU in xbmc system, video
If you want hardware acceleration with ATI you might want to follow one of the guides(vaapi) in this forum