I have downloaded and installed amdgpu-pro-17.30-465504.tar.xz on Ubuntu 17.04 (64-bit).
I have verified that the libvdpau-amdgpu-pro package is installed:
$ dpkg -l libvdpau-amdgpu-pro:amd64
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=================================-=====================-=====================-========================================================================
ii libvdpau-amdgpu-pro:amd64 1:17.0.1-465504 amd64 AMDGPU Pro VDPAU driver
I have also created symlinks for the vdpau driver in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau:
$ sudo ln -s /opt/amdgpu-pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_amdgpu.so.1.0.0 \
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_amdgpu.so.1.0.0
$ sudo ln -s /opt/amdgpu-pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_amdgpu.so.1.0.0 \
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_amdgpu.so.1.0
$ sudo ln -s /opt/amdgpu-pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_amdgpu.so.1.0.0 \
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_amdgpu.so.1
$ sudo ln -s /opt/amdgpu-pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_amdgpu.so.1.0.0 \
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_amdgpu.so
vdpauinfo, however, reveals that the incorrect driver is being used:
$ vdpauinfo
display: :0 screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0
G3DVL is the "Generic GPU-Accelerated Video Decoding" library, which provides GPU-accelerated decoding only for MPEG-1/2 video.
How do I enable the VDPAU driver provided by amdgpu-pro?
