Comment # 5 on bug 39308 from Andy Furniss

(In reply to comment #4)
> I don't have full access to my old machine with the rv350 anymore (I gave it
> to my father), but I'll try to test vdpau on it. If I don't answer in a
> month, feel free to close this bug (assuming it works for you).

mplayer -vo vdpau with software decode is working for me on rv350.

Decode with -vc ffmpeg12vdpau is still not working, though it did improve a bit
recently see -

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39309