Take the 2-minute tour ×  I recently bought a Nvidia GT 440, and
installed the proprietary nvidia-experimental-310 driver.  Every
player seems to be working alright with VDPAU, except Mplayer
frontends like SMPlayer.  Any ideas on why this is happening?
share|improve this question add comment  1 Answer  If it
actually works with mplayer:  mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau
somefile.mkv  in SMPlayer, it should be as simple as setting it
to use vdpau in Options / Preferences / General / Video. Set the
Output driver vdpau (it should be there in the drop-down list in
a recent enough version, without the need to use the User
defined setting).  How did you install the proprietary drivers
and are you sure the required libraries for vdpau are installed?
share|improve this answer Didn't work with mplayer, gave me this
output: pastebin.com/0NRhFV43 I installed via apt-get install
nvidia-experimental-310. Which are the libs required for vdpau?
I'm pretty sure they're installed, because VLC works fine with
vdpau. –  Cli