Comment # 14 on bug 914665 from Thomas Hejze

(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #10)
> Also please make sure that package libvdpau-va-gl is *not* installed and
> VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable is *not* set. Otherwise vdpau will be
> routed back to libva. Possible loop?

Installing libva-vdpau-driver together with the G04 package set did the job.
libvdpau-va-gl1 was marked as taboo in Yast. Unsetting the VDPAU_DRIVER
environment variable by hand was not necessary.