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Companion

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 7

[Soulved][Media] Videos codecs are not working

Hello there,

Recently re-installed Archlinux, and for some reason it will not play any video files with  Totem.

What I have tried:
Followed this guide on arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Codecs#GStreamer
Installed the codec64 package from AUR
Installed MPlayer (Plays some videos but not all)

Installed:
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Installed also the 'above' packages from the guide

Installed MPlayer codecs

My goal:
To be able to play any video/codec with Totem Player.

Also Google dit had not the answer for me when googling the output/notifications beside the advice installing packages that I already have installed.

Notice: when installing some thing I have this driver related issue: ldconfig: libraries libvdpau.so.1 and libvdpau.so.1.0.0 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.

-Companion

Last edited by Companion (2011-09-23 08:59:16)

ngoonee

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Re: [Soulved][Media] Videos codecs are not working

Are you fully updated?

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Re: [Soulved][Media] Videos codecs are not working

Installed the codec64 package from AUR
Installed MPlayer codecs

Useless, remove them

Installed MPlayer (Plays some videos but not all)

Post whole mplayer output from one of the videos it does not play. Mplayer is capable of playing about anything that isn't DRM protected.

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Companion

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Registered: 2011-09-22

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Re: [Soulved][Media] Videos codecs are not working

My distro was fully updated,

Its soulved (Thanks to Ioni & BinaryCode @ IRC)

The problem was affected by the NVIDIA Drivers from www.nvidia.com I un installed it and re installed trough the Repo.

Fixes were:

# sudo ./NVIDIA-*.run --uninstall

-> Reboot

# sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

$ startx

# pacman -S mplayer smplayer

instant fixed