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Method

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Registered: 2016-08-22

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[Solved] Codec issue - can't play media

Solution: turns out there was something funky with gst-libav. I removed it and reinstalled and now things are fine.

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Fresh install of Arch. Tested audio and video, but they don't play in gnome music or videos. (streaming audio/video through a browser is fine). I installed VLC, since it should pull in relevant libraries, or at the very least I could use VLC itself. Still nothing in gnome music or videos. In fact, VLC won't open. Strange. If someone could give me a friendly hint that would be much appreciated.

Running VLC from cli displays this:

[0000000000a8a148] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0000000000bc1718] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
[0000000000bc1718] skins2 interface error: cannot instantiate qt4 dialogs provider

I think it actually might be stemming from gstreamer..?

Output of "vlv -vv": http://pastebin.com/VLpfJ9C9

Last edited by Method (2016-08-29 21:47:23)

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Codec issue - can't play media

vlc pretty plainly tells you to install qt4, it is only optional since it isn't mandatory and there are few applications that use only the library part (pacman will tell you about optional dependencies and the reason for them being there, always pay attention to what pacman tells you). For totem you should install the gst-plugin packages gst-plugins-good, -bad, -ugly for most of the core functionality, gst-libav for WMV's

Last edited by V1del (2016-08-29 21:21:01)

Method

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Registered: 2016-08-22

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Re: [Solved] Codec issue - can't play media

All the gstreamer plugins are installed already.

I don't really care about getting VLC to work, I'm more concerned that gnome-music and videos won't play any of my mp3, mp4, and mkv files.