Failed to initialize audio - Failed to open VDPAU backend
#1
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.
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#2
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
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