When opening VLC in xfce and playing a video I get this message with dmesg: [ 3814.759551] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nve4_fuc084 failed with error -2 [ 3814.759562] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nve4_fuc084d failed with error -2 [ 3814.759564] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data [ 3814.759566] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19 otherwise, the video plays ok (disregarding tearing). I'm using Arch Linux - Linux 4.4.0-rc3-ARCH-00005-g2255702 #10 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 1 17:59:34 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux - 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 770] (rev a1) hwinfo: 21: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.328] Unique ID: VCu0.m9CZZByo01D Parent ID: vSkL.L3QNiGMcNjA SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia VGA compatible controller" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x1184 SubVendor: pci 0x10b0 "CardExpert Technology" SubDevice: pci 0x1184 Revision: 0xa1 Driver: "nouveau" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0xea000000-0xeaffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xe8000000-0xe9ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xefff (rw) Memory Range: 0xeb000000-0xeb07ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 27 (858918 events) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00001184sv000010B0sd00001184bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: nouveau is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #7 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #21 Do you need some other logs?
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ Your application was trying to use vdpau, but you don't have the firmware installed.
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