8.10 - can't play video

[richard.e.morton]

Hi There,

Thanks for looking. I have a fresh install of kubuntu 810 on my thinkpad t60. Everything works on it including the wifi indicator and ethernet port - much better than with Hardy. However I have tried video playback and it just opens what ever program i choose ( Kaffeine and VLC with LIBDVDCSS2 is installed as is win32codecs).

The application loads and plays the first second of audio, the playback window opens usually as well but is blank, then everything closes without an error. The application doesn't go into, standby - waiting for next command, the application closes completely with no error. I have tried 2 different media players. Sound works fine for other things and games are fine as well.

Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks

Richard

[myonlyparadigm]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

Hey,

i'm having the same problem. my version is up-to-date and i've tried every media player i can get my hands on (Kplayer, Mplayer, KMplayer, kaffeine, vlc, dragon player, helix player, real player). everything crashes a mere second after opening, and theres no error message. i know the files are not corrupt or anything, as they work in windows [gross] and on my nokia phone [running symbian S60]. actually, i think kplayer runs the audio but not video.

video playback works flawlessly in firefox; it could be better in konqueror, but thats so different from firefox that it could just be my lack of familiarity. the biggest surprise to me was skype: video does not work and it freezes containing whatever is below is on screen when its dragged on the desktop. the contacts window also does not work, getting stuck in one view or another. sorry for struggling to find words to describe this glitch, its just very unusual.

i have a dell inspiron e1505, ati radeon x1300, and im running kwin; compiz is not even installed. just to throw this out there, but the "activate" button in jockey for the ati driver never actually activates the ati driver, and the last time i actually got it to activate when i clicked it, the whole display gave out and i had to reformat.

i dont know how relevant this is, but before my last reformat, video playback was flawless in every program, but, long story short, i had to reformat and since then i've had this problem. i'd reformat again, but since i've had to reformat about 8x in the last month [8.10 hasnt been as stable as i'd hoped], i've committed to not reformatting again and trying to fix things instead.

if any other information is needed, im happy to provide, just let me know what you want and what to do. i hope not too many people have this problem, as its quite a bother if you're trying to give a presentation and you find that video playback is not an option.

Thanks all,
Mike

[The Liquidator]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

Try launching kaffeine (or Mplayer etc etc ) from a terminal and then try to play the same file(s). Do you get any messages in the terminal that might give a clue as to what is happening?

[Rog131]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

Something to try:

- turn "Desktop effects"/ "Compositing" off
- check what is the default "video output" in the media player. Try to change it to OpenGL/XVideo/auto/something...


Links:

> Topic: Video Playback (DVD, AVI, etc.) Cause Crash in Video
> Topic: Lost video in Kaffeine...

[myonlyparadigm]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

wow, fast reply, thank you.

mplayer and kaffeine did not launch through the terminal, but kplayer did. i pasted what it said below. it played the audio, but not the video. when i tried to change the codec from default to anything else, it froze every time and i had to force kill it. and turning off desktop effects didnt change anything im afraid.


MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14, Stepping: 8)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.
Playing /home/mike/Desktop/Vote.mp4.
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [mp4v] 320x214 24bpp 29.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=/home/mike/Desktop/Vote.mp4
ID_DEMUXER=mov
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=mp4v
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=320
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=214
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=mp4a
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=215.14
xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window.
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
================================================== ========================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffodivx
================================================== ========================
Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
================================================== ========================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=faad
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 214 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.50:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.4953
VO: [xv] 320x214 => 320x214 Planar YV12 [zoom]

[The Liquidator]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

I can play pretty much anything but don't have W32codecs installed. Have you got libxine1-all-plugins installed?

Ian

[myonlyparadigm]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

i went and got all the plugins, but nothing has changed. KPlayer did finally come up with a fatal error and spit this out:



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[KCrash handler]
#6 0xb7f44caa in KJob::isSuspended () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5
#7 0x080725b1 in _start ()
#0 0xb80b6430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()


i dont know how helpful that is.

-Mike

[kevinc]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

Do you have an nvidia or ATI graphics card?

After installing medibuntu packages and everything else I could think of, I still couldn't play DVD's then tried the ATI driver, which actually didn't work properly because it wants to write to /etc/X11/xorg.conf which 8.10 doesn't use. Next time I tried a DVD it works with vlc and dragon, including titles and options.

[myonlyparadigm]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

i have an ATI radeon x1300, and i've tried several times to get the driver to work, but I don't know how, other than to hit Activate, which does nothing. last time i messed with it, my friend did something in the terminal and told me it was active, but then the display crashed and i had to reformat.

i've reformatted again out of curiosity since my last post here, and this curious problem remains.

-Mike

[LinuxIsInnovation]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

Install VLC media player:

sudo apt-get install vlc

Open VLC, and goto Tools->Preferences->Video and change the "Output" on the right column from Default to X11 Video Output. Save it and restart VLC.

[myonlyparadigm]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

thanks! that got vlc to work! thank you very much.


-Mike

[LinuxIsInnovation]

Re: 8.10 - can't play video

Glad I could help