Hi,
just updated to the newest beta2 to test the mplayer VDPAU feature

Unfortunatlely it does not seem to work.
VDPAU is setup in webfrontend. See attached picture. But replay does not use VDPAU, it uses xv :
root@moon44:/usr/pluto/bin# ps ax|grep mplayer
24641 pts/9 Dl+ 0:34 mplayer -slave -idle -msglevel all=4 -noborder -fixed-vo -fs -vo xv,x11 -vf screenshot -ao alsa:device=asym_spdif -ac hwac3,hwdts,a52, -lavdopts fast:threads=2 /usr/pluto/share/black.mpeg
Was already setup for vdpau, but also tried "auto". Did do a quick reload between testing.
edit:
# apt-cache policy mplayer
mplayer:
Installed: 2:1.0-svn29964-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2:1.0-svn29964-0ubuntu1
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