Thanks mike for the response. Maybe this is appropriate here? In addition to making a few links to compile mplayer for VDPAU, I had to do the following to compile mythtv. In /usr/lib64 ln -s ./libXxf86vm.so.1 ./libXxf86vm.so ln -s ./libXv.so.1 ./libXv.so ln -s ./libXmu.so.6 ./libXmu.so