No video [RESOLVED]

[road hazard]

Using Antergos and the latest ver of Avidemu, 2.7.0. I'm a Linux n00b so if you want me to gather logs or try something, be REALLY detailed with your response please.

I installed Avidemux(Qt) and when I load a MKV file, I get audio but no video. My gfx card is a Nvidia GTX 670, using proprietary drivers. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Jan Gruuthuse]

Most likely you need to install either one of these if available in Antergos:
- VDPAU or/and OpenGL

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dpkg -l vdpau*

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ii  vdpau-driver-all:amd64         1.1.1-3ubuntu1       amd64                Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (driver metapackage)
ii  vdpau-va-driver:amd64          0.7.4-5              amd64                VDPAU-based backend for VA API
ii  vdpauinfo                      1.0-1                amd64                Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (vdpauinfo utility)

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vdpauinfo would tell if the card does support HEVC, in case the used code is HEVC, in this example the last 4 are not supported

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MPEG1                           0 65536  4080  4080
MPEG2_SIMPLE                    3 65536  4080  4080
MPEG2_MAIN                      3 65536  4080  4080
H264_BASELINE                  41 65536  4096  4096
H264_MAIN                      41 65536  4096  4096
H264_HIGH                      41 65536  4096  4096
VC1_SIMPLE                      1  8190  2048  2048
VC1_MAIN                        2  8190  2048  2048
VC1_ADVANCED                    4  8190  2048  2048
MPEG4_PART2_SP                  3  8192  2048  2048
MPEG4_PART2_ASP                 5  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_QMOBILE                   0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_MOBILE                    0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER              0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_HD_1080P                  0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_QMOBILE                   0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_MOBILE                    0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER              0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_HD_1080P                  0  8192  2048  2048
H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE      41 65536  4096  4096
H264_EXTENDED                  41 65536  4096  4096
H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH          41 65536  4096  4096
H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH          41 65536  4096  4096
H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE       41 65536  4096  4096
HEVC_MAIN                      153 36864  4096  2304
HEVC_MAIN_10                   --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_STILL                --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_12                   --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444                  --- not supported ---

some hints can be found here: Library Info & Tools from Ubuntu, don't know how this would translate to Antergos.

[eumagga0x2a]

Please launch Avidemux in terminal

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avidemux3_qt5 | tee ~/admlog.txt

try to load a video, quit Avidemux, compress admlog.txt and attach it to your reply.

Otherwise try disabling hw accelerated decoding in Avidemux and setting video output to something failsafe like "Qt" (the worst option, but should work if everything else fails).

[road hazard]

Please launch Avidemux in terminal

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avidemux3_qt5 | tee ~/admlog.txt

try to load a video, quit Avidemux, compress admlog.txt and attach it to your reply.

Otherwise try disabling hw accelerated decoding in Avidemux and setting video output to something failsafe like "Qt" (the worst option, but should work if everything else fails).

Here you go: (thanks)

EDIT: Never mind, it's working now. I went into preferences and checked the 'Decode video using VDPAU (NVIDIA)' and everything is AOK. Sorry about that.

[road hazard]

Most likely you need to install either one of these if available in Antergos:
- VDPAU or/and OpenGL

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dpkg -l vdpau*

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ii  vdpau-driver-all:amd64         1.1.1-3ubuntu1       amd64                Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (driver metapackage)
ii  vdpau-va-driver:amd64          0.7.4-5              amd64                VDPAU-based backend for VA API
ii  vdpauinfo                      1.0-1                amd64                Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (vdpauinfo utility)

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vdpauinfo would tell if the card does support HEVC, in case the used code is HEVC, in this example the last 4 are not supported

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MPEG1                           0 65536  4080  4080
MPEG2_SIMPLE                    3 65536  4080  4080
MPEG2_MAIN                      3 65536  4080  4080
H264_BASELINE                  41 65536  4096  4096
H264_MAIN                      41 65536  4096  4096
H264_HIGH                      41 65536  4096  4096
VC1_SIMPLE                      1  8190  2048  2048
VC1_MAIN                        2  8190  2048  2048
VC1_ADVANCED                    4  8190  2048  2048
MPEG4_PART2_SP                  3  8192  2048  2048
MPEG4_PART2_ASP                 5  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_QMOBILE                   0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_MOBILE                    0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER              0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_HD_1080P                  0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_QMOBILE                   0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_MOBILE                    0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER              0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_HD_1080P                  0  8192  2048  2048
H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE      41 65536  4096  4096
H264_EXTENDED                  41 65536  4096  4096
H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH          41 65536  4096  4096
H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH          41 65536  4096  4096
H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE       41 65536  4096  4096
HEVC_MAIN                      153 36864  4096  2304
HEVC_MAIN_10                   --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_STILL                --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_12                   --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444                  --- not supported ---

some hints can be found here: Library Info & Tools from Ubuntu, don't know how this would translate to Antergos.

When I went into the Antergos software manager and searched for VDPAU and OpenGL, I saw lots of hits for those two and to my untrained eyes, I -think?- the proper ones are installed. (That had green boxes beside them.)

And those commands didn't work in Antergos.

[Jan Gruuthuse]

And those commands didn't work in Antergos.

I've noticed Antergos is an Arch Linux based distro. Not like Ubuntu that is Debian based.

glad you figured this one out:

EDIT: Never mind, it's working now. I went into preferences and checked the 'Decode video using VDPAU (NVIDIA)' and everything is AOK.