play yuv files in ubuntu

 

.yuv is an image or video file.

1 use this command "sudo apt-get install mplayer" to install mplayer

2 read this article: http://blog.csdn.net/seven407/article/details/6406195

3 if you get this error message: "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

use this command to play your file: " mplayer -vo x11 -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=320:h=240:format=yuy2 qvga.yuv -loop 0 "

 

some useful links:

http://vsingleton.blogspot.sg/2010/02/failed-to-open-vdpau-backend.html

 

http://www.debianadmin.com/install-mplayer-ubuntu.html