by kisak » Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:18 am
To whom it may concern,
This is still an issue in the wild with smplayer/mplayer, smplayer2/mplayer2. Ideally, there would be an additional checkmark near 'Preferences -> General -> Video -> Output Driver: vdpau, Configure -> ffmpegh264vdpau checkmark' (reference from smplayer 14.3.0) that would let the user prefer ffmpegh264vdpau, but fallback to ffmpegh264 if mplayer failed to initialize. At the time of this writing, there is no vdpau hardware capable of handling hi10p.