VLC - OGV format .. plays audio without video??

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#1

VLC plays only the audio track from OGV files … no video … screen in black.

I have played my OGV files with VLC forever it seems, without issue. Today?? No video! Two days ago all was fine. Only thing that i would have done to the system in between is accept system updates.

I have done # zypper dup --from 3 [packman repo] with ‘nothing to do’ as the result.

Dragon Player has no issue playing the OGV files.

Any ideas??

vlc --version
VLC media player 2.2.4 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.3-37-g888b7e89)
VLC version 2.2.4 Weatherwax (2.2.3-37-g888b7e89)
Compiled by abuild on obs-build (Nov 29 2016 14:22)
Compiler: gcc version 4.8.5 (SUSE Linux)
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by the VideoLAN team; see the AUTHORS file.

#2

didn’t ogv die a few years back if I’m not wrong it use to use the theora video codec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora which in turn was based on an old On2 vp3 codec and has been superseded by google’s vp9?
the thing is ogv is just a container if it was theora or vpx video vlc from OSS would play it but ogv might have a h264 or h264 even XviD video so open that file with mediainfo
https://software.opensuse.org/package/mediainfo

zypper in mediainfo
mediainfo /path/to/ogv_file.ogv

to make sure it actually uses an open video compression format which the restricted version of vlc can play
or better uet add the packman repo and do a full vendor change to install the restricted/patented media codecs

zypper ar -ftp://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ packman
zypper dup --from packman
zypper in vlc-codecs libxine2-codecs
#3

OK I didn’t read you already did a vendor change
then paste the terminal output of

vlc /path/to/yourfile.ogm

using mediainfo is another way to make sure your file does have a video track as ogm might be audio only?
also tell us your repo list

zypper lr -d

ps
you should also check if you have libtheora and libvpx installed

zypper info libtheora
zypper info libvpx
#4

Thanks @I_A … before i follow your suggestions however … here is some additional info.

On reflection i realized that during the last few days the nVidia driver had been included in updates … so out of interest i rolled back my system to an image taken 5 days ago, before the nVidia driver update … and VLC works as it has always done wrt ogv files … no issue.

So then i did ‘zypper up’ to bring the system up to date … with the following interesting output:


(1/9) Installing: nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default-384.69_k4.4.27_2-25.1.x86_64 ............................................................................................................................................[done]
Additional rpm output:
make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26-obj/x86_64/default'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 0 modules
make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26-obj/x86_64/default'
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default /
make "CC=cc" KBUILD_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux-obj/x86_64/default KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /lib/modules/4.4.79-18.26-default/source M=/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default ARCH=x86_64 NV_KERNEL_SOURCES=/lib/modules/4.4.79-18.26-default/source NV_KERNEL_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux-obj/x86_64/default NV_KERNEL_MODULES="nvidia nvidia-uvm nvidia-modeset nvidia-drm" INSTALL_MOD_DIR=kernel/drivers/video modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26-obj/x86_64/default'
 CONFTEST: INIT_WORK
 CONFTEST: remap_pfn_range
 CONFTEST: hash__remap_4k_pfn
 CONFTEST: follow_pfn
 CONFTEST: vmap
 CONFTEST: set_pages_uc
 CONFTEST: set_memory_uc
 CONFTEST: set_memory_array_uc
 CONFTEST: change_page_attr
 CONFTEST: pci_get_class
 CONFTEST: pci_choose_state
 CONFTEST: vm_insert_page
 CONFTEST: acpi_device_id
 CONFTEST: acquire_console_sem
 CONFTEST: console_lock
 CONFTEST: kmem_cache_create
 CONFTEST: on_each_cpu
 CONFTEST: smp_call_function
 CONFTEST: acpi_evaluate_integer
 CONFTEST: ioremap_cache
 CONFTEST: ioremap_wc
 CONFTEST: acpi_walk_namespace
 CONFTEST: pci_domain_nr
 CONFTEST: pci_dma_mapping_error
 CONFTEST: sg_alloc_table
 CONFTEST: sg_init_table
 CONFTEST: pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot
 CONFTEST: get_num_physpages
 CONFTEST: efi_enabled
 CONFTEST: proc_create_data
 CONFTEST: pde_data
 CONFTEST: proc_remove
 CONFTEST: pm_vt_switch_required
 CONFTEST: xen_ioemu_inject_msi
 CONFTEST: phys_to_dma
 CONFTEST: get_dma_ops
 CONFTEST: write_cr4
 CONFTEST: of_get_property
 CONFTEST: of_find_node_by_phandle
 CONFTEST: of_node_to_nid
 CONFTEST: pnv_pci_get_npu_dev
 CONFTEST: for_each_online_node
 CONFTEST: node_end_pfn
 CONFTEST: pci_bus_address
 CONFTEST: pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device
 CONFTEST: pci_remove_bus_device
 CONFTEST: request_threaded_irq
 CONFTEST: register_cpu_notifier
 CONFTEST: cpuhp_setup_state
 CONFTEST: remap_page_range
 CONFTEST: address_space_init_once
 CONFTEST: kbasename
 CONFTEST: fatal_signal_pending
 CONFTEST: list_cut_position
 CONFTEST: vzalloc
 CONFTEST: wait_on_bit_lock_argument_count
 CONFTEST: bitmap_clear
 CONFTEST: usleep_range
 CONFTEST: radix_tree_empty
 CONFTEST: drm_dev_unref
 CONFTEST: drm_reinit_primary_mode_group
 CONFTEST: drm_atomic_set_mode_for_crtc
 CONFTEST: drm_atomic_clean_old_fb
 CONFTEST: get_user_pages_remote
 CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_lookup
 CONFTEST: drm_atomic_state_free
 CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_gem_prime_res_obj
 CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_of_node_to_nid
 CONFTEST: i2c_adapter
 CONFTEST: pm_message_t
 CONFTEST: irq_handler_t
 CONFTEST: acpi_device_ops
 CONFTEST: acpi_op_remove
 CONFTEST: outer_flush_all
 CONFTEST: proc_dir_entry
 CONFTEST: scatterlist
 CONFTEST: sg_table
 CONFTEST: file_operations
 CONFTEST: vm_operations_struct
 CONFTEST: atomic_long_type
 CONFTEST: pci_save_state
 CONFTEST: file_inode
 CONFTEST: task_struct
 CONFTEST: kuid_t
 CONFTEST: dma_ops
 CONFTEST: dma_map_ops
 CONFTEST: noncoherent_swiotlb_dma_ops
 CONFTEST: vm_fault_present
 CONFTEST: vm_fault_has_address
 CONFTEST: fault_flags
 CONFTEST: atomic64_type
 CONFTEST: address_space
 CONFTEST: backing_dev_info
 CONFTEST: kernel_write
 CONFTEST: strnstr
 CONFTEST: iterate_dir
 CONFTEST: kstrtoull
 CONFTEST: mm_context_t
 CONFTEST: vm_ops_fault_removed_vma_arg
 CONFTEST: pnv_npu2_init_context
 CONFTEST: drm_bus_present
 CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_bus_type
 CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_irq
 CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_name
 CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_legacy_dev_list
 CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_set_busid
 CONFTEST: drm_crtc_state_has_connectors_changed
 CONFTEST: drm_init_functions_have_name_arg
 CONFTEST: drm_mode_connector_list_update_has_merge_type_bits_arg
 CONFTEST: drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct
 CONFTEST: drm_master_drop_has_from_release_arg
 CONFTEST: drm_mode_config_funcs_has_atomic_state_alloc
 CONFTEST: drm_driver_unload_has_int_return_type
 CONFTEST: dom0_kernel_present
 CONFTEST: nvidia_vgpu_kvm_build
 CONFTEST: nvidia_grid_build
 CONFTEST: drm_available
 CONFTEST: drm_atomic_available
 CONFTEST: drm_atomic_modeset_nonblocking_commit_available
 CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_inc
 CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_dec_and_test

… continued

#5

continued …

CC [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-frontend.o
CC [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-instance.o
CC [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv.o
CC [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-acpi.o
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CC [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block_test.o
CC [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_range_group_tree_test.o
LD [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-uvm.o
CC [M] /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o
 SYMLINK /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-kernel.o
  LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-modeset.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-utils.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-crtc.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-connector.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-fb.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-modeset.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-linux.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-helper.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm/nv-pci-table.o
  LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm.o
ld -r -o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-interface.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-frontend.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-instance.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-acpi.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-chrdev.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-cray.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-dma.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-gvi.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-i2c.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-mempool.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-mmap.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-p2p.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-pat.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-procfs.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-usermap.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-vm.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-vtophys.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/os-interface.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/os-mlock.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/os-pci.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/os-registry.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/os-usermap.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-modeset-interface.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-pci-table.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-kthread-q.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-kthread-q-selftest.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv-memdbg.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nv_uvm_interface.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia/nvlink_linux.o
ld -r -o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 4 modules
  CC      /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm.mod.o
  LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-drm.ko
  CC      /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-modeset.mod.o
  LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-modeset.ko
  CC      /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-uvm.mod.o
  LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia-uvm.ko
  CC      /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia.mod.o
  LD [M]  /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.69-default/nvidia.ko
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26'
ld -T /lib/modules/4.4.79-18.26-default/source/scripts/module-common.lds -r -o nv-linux.o \
  nvidia.mod.o nvidia/nv-interface.o
/
depmod: WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/4.4.27-2-default/modules.order: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/4.4.27-2-default/modules.builtin: No such file or directory


Modprobe blacklist files have been created at /etc/modprobe.d to prevent Nouveau from loading. This can be reverted by deleting /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-*.conf.


*** Reboot your computer and verify that the NVIDIA graphics driver can be loaded. ***


grep: /etc/sysconfig/kernel: No such file or directory
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.59-default /
rm -f -r conftest
make "CC=cc" KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/4.4.79-18.26-default/build KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /lib/modules/4.4.79-18.26-default/source M=/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.59-default ARCH=x86_64 NV_KERNEL_SOURCES=/lib/modules/4.4.79-18.26-default/source NV_KERNEL_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/4.4.79-18.26-default/build NV_KERNEL_MODULES="nvidia nvidia-uvm nvidia-modeset nvidia-drm" INSTALL_MOD_DIR=kernel/drivers/video clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26-obj/x86_64/default'
  CLEAN   /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.59-default
  CLEAN   /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.59-default/.tmp_versions
  CLEAN   /usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-384.59-default/Module.symvers
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.4.79-18.26'
/
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.4.74-18.20-default
dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-4.4.74-18.20-default 4.4.74-18.20-default
dracut: *** Including module: bash ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: warpclock ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd ***
dracut: *** Including module: i18n ***
dracut: Could not find FONT_MAP none!
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dracut: *** Store current command line parameters ***
dracut: Stored kernel commandline:
dracut:  resume=UUID=0d1cd190-fab3-4a4f-9199-2149b34af4e3
dracut:  root=UUID=fb23e7b1-0078-4851-97ea-c1bba66bdb55 rootfstype=ext4 rootflags=rw,relatime,data=ordered
dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initrd-4.4.79-18.26-default' ***
dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initrd-4.4.79-18.26-default' done ***

(2/9) Installing: nvidia-glG04-384.69-25.1.x86_64 ...................................................................................................................................................................[done]
(3/9) Installing: nvidia-computeG04-384.69-25.1.x86_64 ..............................................................................................................................................................[done]
(4/9) Installing: x11-video-nvidiaG04-384.69-25.1.x86_64 ............................................................................................................................................................[done]
Additional rpm output:
grep: etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
Using MD5DIR="/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5"...
No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
/sbin/mkinitrd
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.4.74-18.20-default
dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-4.4.74-18.20-default 4.4.74-18.20-default
dracut: *** Including module: bash ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: warpclock ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd ***
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dracut: *** Stripping files done ***
dracut: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
dracut: *** Constructing GenuineIntel.bin ****
dracut: *** Store current command line parameters ***
dracut: Stored kernel commandline:
dracut:  resume=UUID=0d1cd190-fab3-4a4f-9199-2149b34af4e3
dracut:  root=UUID=fb23e7b1-0078-4851-97ea-c1bba66bdb55 rootfstype=ext4 rootflags=rw,relatime,data=ordered
dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initrd-4.4.79-18.26-default' ***
dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initrd-4.4.79-18.26-default' done ***

and after reboot once again VLC has no video … as before!!

#6

tldr
update your system

zypper up

reboot
the nvidia driver does influence hardware acceleration but nvidia never supported theora video decoding
try mediainfo and see what’s what
both Firefox and Chromium natively support ogm files with theora video compression try opening those files in a web browser

#7

Thanks for you input I_A … here are some outputs:

mediainfo ./36_05_01_Adding_files.ogv  
General
ID                                       : 1588319877 (0x5EABD685)
Complete name                            : ./36_05_01_Adding_files.ogv
Format                                   : Ogg
File size                                : 12.6 MiB
Duration                                 : 6 min 6 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 287 kb/s
recordMyDesktop                          : 0.3.8.1
FileExtension_Invalid                    : ogg ogm opus

Video
ID                                       : 736927018 (0x2BEC9D2A)
Format                                   : Theora
Duration                                 : 6 min 6 s
Bit rate                                 : 177 kb/s
Width                                    : 1 056 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 3:2
Frame rate                               : 15.000 FPS
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.016
Stream size                              : 7.74 MiB (62%)
Writing library                          : Xiph.Org libtheora 1.1 20090822 (Thusnelda)

Audio
ID                                       : 1753834416 (0x688963B0)
Format                                   : Vorbis
Format settings, Floor                   : 1
Duration                                 : 6 min 6 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 90.0 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 22.05 kHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 3.93 MiB (31%)
Writing library                          : libVorbis (Omnipresent) (20120203 (Omnipresent))



sudo zypper lr -d
root's password:                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
# | Alias                    | Name                              | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                               | Service                              
--+--------------------------+-----------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+--------                              
1 | download.nvidia.com-leap | nVidia Graphics Drivers           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.2                     |                                      
2 | google-chrome            | google-chrome                     | No      | ----      | ----    |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64               |                                      
3 | packman.inode.at-suse    | Packman Repository                | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/                  |                                      
4 | repo-non-oss             | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Non-Oss        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/non-oss/ |                                      
5 | repo-oss                 | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Oss            | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/     |                                      
6 | repo-update              | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Update         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.2/oss/                |                                      
7 | repo-update-non-oss      | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Update-Non-Oss | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.2/non-oss/            |    


zypper info libtheora
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

package 'libtheora' not found.


zypper info libvpx
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

package 'libvpx' not found.
#8

my mistake the name of those libraries is libtheora0 and libvpx1 (I don’t get the 0 and 1 in those names but …)
https://software.opensuse.org/package/libtheora0
https://software.opensuse.org/package/libvpx1
so check if you have them

zypper info libtheora0
zypper info libvpx1

if not install them

I just remembered an older thread a user was having issues playing video on 42.2 after a disk upgrade from 42.1 the reason was there wore some 42.1 packages that didn’t get upgraded and the miss match caused his vlc to break
if that is an upgraded system not a clean install check if maybe an old package is causing issues

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{Name}:%{Distribution}
" | grep -F "42.1"

do that if you upgraded from 42.1 if you did from an earlier 13.x in the above command replace 42.1 with 13

#9

I’ve had the same issue with vlc and nvidia driver 384.69-25: no video anymore. Rolling back to 384.59-50 fixes the problem. Just found another sulotion here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/no-video-output-in-vlc-mplayer-xine-worked-before-4175613805/

“It’s so easy, i know you just resolved but maybe someone will need more information: just go to Tools > Preferences > Video: set “Output” to “OpenGL GLX video output (XCB)” and restart.”

Works fine again:)

#10

Brilliant!! Thanks for that!! :):):slight_smile:

#11

I’m guessing this has something to do with nvidia’s hardware acceleration (VDPAU)
what video driver did you have (G04 or G03 not the version numbers) and how did you install it the hard or the easy way?