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BaronessSonja

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From: Norway

Registered: 2022-05-20

Posts: 2

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Videos are not playing anywhere

No videos will "play", but i can scrub and get the current frame just fine. This happens with any kind of video, if its a file on my desktop or in the browser, they wont "play" the clip, but its able to download the video just fine from testing.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.17.9-arch1-1
Uptime: 3 mins
packages: 1531 (pacman)
DE: GNOME 42.1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics (12) @ 3.900GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 3226MiB / 15843MiB
CPU Usage: 11%

Download link of an example

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 525

Re: Videos are not playing anywhere

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … -38-38.mp4

Without any more info from you, all that I can tell you is that video plays for me.
https://0x0.st/oajS.png

You haven't given any info. What do you get from:

mplayer/mpv/ffplay/vlc https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/749361115896742041/977204566795882536/2022-05-20_15-38-38.mp4

Is your internet connection, your dns working right? Firewall, proxy?

wget --spider https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/749361115896742041/977204566795882536/2022-05-20_15-38-38.mp4
...
Resolving cdn.discordapp.com (cdn.discordapp.com)... 162.159.130.233, 162.159.129.233, 162.159.135.233, ...
Connecting to cdn.discordapp.com (cdn.discordapp.com)|162.159.130.233|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7727229 (7.4M) [video/mp4]
Remote file exists.

Last edited by teckk (2022-05-20 21:09:09)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,951

Re: Videos are not playing anywhere

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=276299
https://archlinux.org/news/undone-repla … replumber/

There's a whole host of threads about this.

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BaronessSonja

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From: Norway

Registered: 2022-05-20

Posts: 2

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Re: Videos are not playing anywhere

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … -38-38.mp4

Without any more info from you, all that I can tell you is that video plays for me.
https://0x0.st/oajS.png

You haven't given any info. What do you get from:

mplayer/mpv/ffplay/vlc https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/749361115896742041/977204566795882536/2022-05-20_15-38-38.mp4

Is your internet connection, your dns working right? Firewall, proxy?

wget --spider https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/749361115896742041/977204566795882536/2022-05-20_15-38-38.mp4
...
Resolving cdn.discordapp.com (cdn.discordapp.com)... 162.159.130.233, 162.159.129.233, 162.159.135.233, ...
Connecting to cdn.discordapp.com (cdn.discordapp.com)|162.159.130.233|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7727229 (7.4M) [video/mp4]
Remote file exists.

It works through VLC, however the gnome media player can't.

Wget:

--2022-05-20 23:20:39--  https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … -38-38.mp4
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving cdn.discordapp.com (cdn.discordapp.com)... 162.159.134.233, 162.159.133.233, 162.159.130.233, ...
Connecting to cdn.discordapp.com (cdn.discordapp.com)|162.159.134.233|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7727229 (7.4M) [video/mp4]
Remote file exists.

Last edited by BaronessSonja (2022-05-20 21:29:08)