The same issue with armbian on cubietruck, mpv was broken after the upgrade. Tried to compile new ffmpeg , but it no helps
root@cubietruck:/etc# uname -a
Linux cubietruck 3.4.113-sun7i #16 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 24 19:20:59 CET 2018 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
whoami@cubietruck:/mnt/$ vdpauinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
VDPAU capture: Enabled
vdp_imp_device_create_x11(0x1001f10, 0, -, -)
-> 25
Error creating VDPAU device: 25
root@cubietruck:/usr/lib# less /proc/modules | grep sunxi
sunxi_ir 4036 0 - Live 0xbf082000
hmm, an only remote sunxi module is loaded.