Mplayer do_connect And VDPAU Error Messages
Published on 04 March, 2021 by amjRunning mplayer from a terminal plays the video and audio correctly, but outputs the following errors:
$ mplayer -really-quiet [filename]
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Solving do_connect error
Reference: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2213319
Open $HOME/.mplayer/config and add the following:
lirc=no
Solving VDPAU backend error
Reference: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=197448
Open terminal and run the following:
sudo apt-get install libvdpau-va-gl1
Note: This solves the specific library error shown above. Other library related errors may occur that can be solved by finding and installing the correct library, or creating a symlink to an already existing library file as discussed in the reference link.