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Attius_Sullivan

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Registered: 2019-11-02

Posts: 53

gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

Hi,

currently I'm trying to get gthumb working. I installed it completely normal and started it afterwards. No problem yet. But if I try to open a video, gthumb only plays the audio stream of it (no video track) eventhough in other applications like celluloid (which use a similar backend from what I can tell) everything is fine.

Has anyone gthumb working? And does anyone have an Idea what might be the Issue?

$ uname -a
Linux <host> 5.4.26-1-lts #1 SMP Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:40:46 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ pacman -Qii gthumb
Name            : gthumb
Version         : 3.9.1-1
Description     : Image browser and viewer for the GNOME Desktop
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/gthumb
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : dconf  librsvg  clutter-gtk  gst-plugins-base-libs  gsettings-desktop-schemas  libwebp  libsecret  libsoup  webkit2gtk  json-glib
Optional Deps   : libraw: read RAW files [installed]
                  exiv2: metadata support [installed]
                  libchamplain: map viewer [installed]
                  brasero: burn discs [installed]
                  liboauth: web albums [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 14,81 MiB
Packager        : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date      : 2020-03-08T07:34:41 CET
Install Date    : 2020-03-24T18:08:38 CET
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature
Backup Files    :
(none)

(oh and well I already tried the gthumb-git package of the AUR)

AlphaCentauri

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Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 5

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

I had a similar issue. In my case, the video was opened in a separate window. Installing `gst-plugin-gtk` solved this for me.

Edit: gst-plugin-gtk has been added as a dependency in gthumb 3.9.1-2.

Last edited by AlphaCentauri (2020-04-01 13:59:14)

Attius_Sullivan

Member

Registered: 2019-11-02

Posts: 53

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

Hm I already had that one installed. But thanks anyway.

Other suggestions are still welcome

btg

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Registered: 2014-05-14

Posts: 2

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

Hi,

Try this:
Go to Preferences > Extensions > (click on gear icon) Audio/Video Support  and uncheck "Use hardware acceleration"
then restart application.

Worked for me with ver 3.10.0 of gThumb.

Attius_Sullivan

Member

Registered: 2019-11-02

Posts: 53

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

Nope, neither with nor without hardware acceleration, video playback works.
But thanks for the suggestion

Last edited by Attius_Sullivan (2020-04-22 14:42:30)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,287

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

Terminal output? Which gst plugins do you have installed, what kind of video formats are you talking about?

Attius_Sullivan

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Registered: 2019-11-02

Posts: 53

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

I'm talking about mkv and mp4 containers with h264 and aac codecs.

gthumb has no terminal output when starting from the terminal. (sadly no verbose option from gthumb directly which log level should I post and of gstreamer, clutter or gtk+?)

$ pacman -Qs gst
local/clutter-gst 3.0.27-2
    GStreamer bindings for clutter
local/gst-plugin-gtk 1.16.2-3
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework gtk plugin
local/gst-plugins-bad 1.16.2-7
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework bad plugins
local/gst-plugins-bad-libs 1.16.2-7
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework bad libraries
local/gst-plugins-base 1.16.2-1
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework base plugins
local/gst-plugins-base-libs 1.16.2-1
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework base libraries
local/gst-plugins-good 1.16.2-3
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework good plugins
local/gstreamer 1.16.2-1
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework core library
local/gstreamermm 1.10.0-1
    C++ interface for GStreamer
local/totem 3.34.1-2 (gnome)
    Movie player for the GNOME desktop based on GStreamer

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,287

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

You'll likely need gst-plugins-ugly for a few codecs gst-libav to be absolutely sure.

Attius_Sullivan

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Registered: 2019-11-02

Posts: 53

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

Thought I already tried that. But I tried again. Still not working with:

$ pacman -Qs gst
local/clutter-gst 3.0.27-2
    GStreamer bindings for clutter
local/gst-plugin-gtk 1.16.2-3
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework gtk plugin
local/gst-plugins-bad 1.16.2-7
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework bad plugins
local/gst-plugins-bad-libs 1.16.2-7
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework bad libraries
local/gst-plugins-base 1.16.2-1
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework base plugins
local/gst-plugins-base-libs 1.16.2-1
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework base libraries
local/gst-plugins-good 1.16.2-3
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework good plugins
local/gst-plugins-ugly 1.16.2-3
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework ugly plugins
local/gstreamer 1.16.2-1
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework core library
local/gstreamermm 1.10.0-1
    C++ interface for GStreamer
local/totem 3.34.1-2 (gnome)
    Movie player for the GNOME desktop based on GStreamer

blacktav

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From: Alloue, France

Registered: 2012-04-14

Posts: 11

Re: gthumb no video in video playback (only audio)

Hey, I had similar problems - what solved it was

- installing gst-plugins-ugly  and gst-libav
- switching "hardware acceleration" off in extensions/audio-video support

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Mack