No video after xorg update (?)

adamo · 2008-11-26 09:06:30

Hello since the lats Xorg update ( i reckon that is its fault) i have no video output from my movies in vlc or kaffeine (after installing al the codecs) the sound plays fine.

Denacke · 2008-11-26 09:17:57

Could use some more info

your setup

xorg.conf

updated to xorg from testing?

kaola_linux · 2008-11-26 09:27:11

What is your graphics adapter/card?

post you xorg.conf for better troubleshooting...:)

By the way vlc doesn't need codecs to play most video formats...:)

Last edited by kaola_linux (2008-11-26 09:27:42)

adamo · 2008-11-26 09:32:05

OK so I'll post it later on right now (i'm at work right now) i can tell that may graphics card is GeForce® 8400M GS 128mb (dell m1330 laptop).
And also when pacman asked to use the kernel from 'git' i said yes - don't really know it that was smart.

I know about the no codecs for vlc but wanted to find out if that was a vlc only thing but in kaffeine was the same ;/

Last edited by adamo (2008-11-26 09:36:23)

kaola_linux · 2008-11-26 09:37:18

adamo wrote:

OK so I'll post it later on right now (from work) i can tell that may graphics card is GeForce® 8400M GS 128mb (dell m1330 laptop).
And also when pacman asked to use the kernel from 'git' i said yes - don't really know it that was smart.
I know about the no codecs for vlc but wanted to find out if that was a vlc only thing but in kaffeine was the same ;/

Sorry about that...You can do

nvidia-xconfig

on the terminal to generate a xorg.conf. I'm not sure if this is the right command just check it on the beginners guide if so...

You might as well check this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

Hope that helps
Peace

Last edited by kaola_linux (2008-11-26 09:39:18)

adamo · 2008-11-26 10:01:12

kaola_linux wrote:

Sorry about that...

No problem

You might as well check this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
Hope that helps
Peace

I'll try that as soon I'll come back home.
Thanks for all the help.

Last edited by adamo (2008-11-26 10:20:30)

adamo · 2008-11-26 17:27:56

Well this didn't help ;/

Any other ideas?

Maybe someone else has the same problem?

kaola_linux · 2008-11-26 23:35:57

Did you reinstall xorg? You might try it...

adamo · 2008-11-27 09:45:26

Well that was really stupid of me to forget about that ;/
I'll try that ang let know about the results.

adamo · 2008-11-27 20:41:46

No still nothing ;/
Reinstalling vlc didnt help eider.

Loke · 2008-11-27 21:33:26

If you run VLC from a terminal, and try to play a video, does any errors appear?
Perhaps post output here.

adamo · 2008-11-27 22:24:52

I get an error:

main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

adamo · 2008-11-29 11:30:04

OK i solved it, afer instaling mplayer it showed an missing library /usr/lib/libx264.so.60
So the solutions was to make a simlink sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libx264.so.65 /usr/lib/libx264.so.60

Thanks for all the imput.

Profjim · 2008-12-05 14:48:01

Symlinking libraries is a bad idea. If mplayer hasn't been updated yet in the repos or this problem persists, your best bet is probably to build it yourself. (If you use yaourt, use:

yaourt -Sb mplayer

instead of

yaourt -S mplayer

That should fix the problem of mplayer using an older library.

adamo · 2008-12-06 21:04:40

OK, thx for the reply

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