VLC and mp4 issues.
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6EHTG)
I've moved off Slarm64-15.0. I have the latest Slarm64 RazPi image with kernel 6.4.8, upgraded with current minus the kernel & boot stuff.
Now VLC won't play mp4 videos, and some mkvs. Slackwareaarch64 had the same problem, and this thread refers
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...es-4175728542/
It appears they have solved it in the last day or two, but I applied the slarm64 updates from the 4th & 5th and they don't seem to have helped.
My VLC is 7/8 months old, and worked fine until the update. The vlc in your repo is vlc-3.0.17.4, compiled last November. I, however have 3.0.18 on disk which I got in February :eek: I reinstalled libx264 from 6 months ago - no change. I did even drop back to vlc-3.17.4, but that's the same. I can play most mkvs and avis without issue, I can play mp4s with mpv or with a browser.
As the thread shows, Slackwareaarch64 seems to have fixed it, more by accident than design it appears. I've installed your updates from 4th & 5th of this month (except the console based ones & kernel 6.1.51) but no change here.
EDIT: Sound is ok, but the logs (messages, syslog, dmesg) only show error number 19 (No such device) from some hifi bit of the sound SoC. The video plays either extremely slow (e.g. unwatchable tears on the 'Paramount' or 'Universal' logos) or leaves the screen black with nothing in the logs. I tried installing vlc on the sdcard image, installed libcaca & libx264, but then I ran out of ideas because I didn't know what it wanted.
Now VLC won't play mp4 videos, and some mkvs. Slackwareaarch64 had the same problem, and this thread refers
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...es-4175728542/
It appears they have solved it in the last day or two, but I applied the slarm64 updates from the 4th & 5th and they don't seem to have helped.
My VLC is 7/8 months old, and worked fine until the update. The vlc in your repo is vlc-3.0.17.4, compiled last November. I, however have 3.0.18 on disk which I got in February :eek: I reinstalled libx264 from 6 months ago - no change. I did even drop back to vlc-3.17.4, but that's the same. I can play most mkvs and avis without issue, I can play mp4s with mpv or with a browser.
As the thread shows, Slackwareaarch64 seems to have fixed it, more by accident than design it appears. I've installed your updates from 4th & 5th of this month (except the console based ones & kernel 6.1.51) but no change here.
EDIT: Sound is ok, but the logs (messages, syslog, dmesg) only show error number 19 (No such device) from some hifi bit of the sound SoC. The video plays either extremely slow (e.g. unwatchable tears on the 'Paramount' or 'Universal' logos) or leaves the screen black with nothing in the logs. I tried installing vlc on the sdcard image, installed libcaca & libx264, but then I ran out of ideas because I didn't know what it wanted.