Vlc media player no video output for x11

[nachiappan]

Thanks kmathern

even after installing i still dont see video, could it be any driver issue ?
I tried running "vlc video.wmv" and this was the output http://pastebin.com/qgqGWFRV

when i tried playing a wmv in totem, it says widows media video 9 decoder plugin missing.
when i tried playing a avi in totem, it says DivX MPEG-4 Version 5 decoder plugin missing.
when i tried playing a mkv in totem, it says H.264 decoder plugin missing.
I tried playing wmv and avi in vlc, both had only audio and no video.
Do all these plugins come in any package which i need to install ?

i tried installing libavcodec52, libdvdcss2, w64codecs - none helped.

Thanks,
Nachi

[kmathern]

Thanks kmathern

even after installing i still dont see video, could it be any driver issue ?
I tried running "vlc video.wmv" and this was the output http://pastebin.com/qgqGWFRV

when i tried playing a wmv in totem, it says widows media video 9 decoder plugin missing.
when i tried playing a avi in totem, it says DivX MPEG-4 Version 5 decoder plugin missing.
when i tried playing a mkv in totem, it says H.264 decoder plugin missing.
I tried playing wmv and avi in vlc, both had only audio and no video.
Do all these plugins come in any package which i need to install ?

i tried installing libavcodec52, libdvdcss2, w64codecs - none helped.

Thanks,
Nachi

You might need to install either w64codecs (64bit) or w32codecs (32bit) from the deb-multimedia repo.

[nachiappan]

Hi kmathern,

i tried installing libavcodec52, libdvdcss2, w64codecs - none helped.
w32codecs is not found in the repo.

Thanks,
Nachi

[craigevil]

Totem uses gstreamer.

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 dpkg -l |grep gstreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa:i386               0.10.36-1                          i386         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg                  1:0.10.13-0.2                      i386         FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386              0.10.31-3                          i386         GStreamer plugin for getting the sink/source information from GConf
ii  gstreamer0.10-nice:i386               0.1.2-1                            i386         ICE library (GStreamer plugin)
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad:i386        0.10.23-6                          i386         GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386       0.10.36-1                          i386         GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386       0.10.31-3                          i386         GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad:i386 0.10.23-dmo2                       i386         GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly:i386       0.10.19-2+b2                       i386         GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-qapt                    1.3.0-2                            i386         GStreamer plugin to install codecs using QApt
ii  gstreamer0.10-x:i386                  0.10.36-1                          i386         GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0:i386   0.10.23-6                          i386         GStreamer development files for libraries from the "bad" set
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386  0.10.36-1                          i386         GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0:i386               0.10.36-1                          i386         Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii  libqtgstreamer-0.10-0:i386            0.10.2-2                           i386         C++ bindings library for GStreamer with a Qt-style API
ii  libqtgstreamerui-0.10-0:i386          0.10.2-2                           i386         QtGStreamerUi library
ii  phonon-backend-gstreamer:i386         4:4.6.0.0-2                        i386         Phonon GStreamer 0.10.x backend

Totem : http://projects.gnome.org/totem/

GStreamer

When using the GStreamer backend, you can install multiple plugin packages. You can install them the same way as you would install totem. Some information about the gstreamer-plugins packages can be found here.

gst-plugins-base
the basic and essential plug-ins for GStreamer
gst-plugins-good
the plug-ins for most Open formats
gst-plugins-ugly
good-quality plug-ins that might pose distribution problems, needed for DVD playback
gst-plugins-bad
a set of plug-ins that need more work, needed for DVD playback as well
gst-ffmpeg
FFmpeg-based plug-in, contains all the basic decoders for popular codecs, such as DivX and WMV

[nachiappan]

Hi Craigevil,

I tried installing gstreamer plugin, now both totem and vlc have same behaviour.
Both play only audio and no video.

will this be something to do with drivers ?
I wanted to mention one thing how i did debian installation. I didnot install full gnome.
I installed base debian, over that installed x-window-system-core, gdm and gnome-core.

Since I did this would only install base gnome, will I have to install anything more for video driver ?

Thanks,
Nachi

[stevepusser]

Looking at your vlc log, it shows it's still vlc-1.1.3 from Squeeze. If you have upgraded to the dmo ffmpeg, then you should install the vlc from the dmo squeeze-backports section, which is still 1:2.0.1-0.squeeze1.

Hmmm---as for gstreamer problems, as dmo removed the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package, I'd try installing the newer version from the official Debian backports repo to see if that fixes things; it ought to according to my experience (see backports.org)

As far as I can tell, once we get past the ffmpeg 0.6 barrier, the backwards compatibility problems seem to disappear.

Steve (crossing fingers for luck, running backported 0.11.1 ffmpeg on a Squeeze base)

[nachiappan]

Hi stevepusser,

Sorry I am new and dont understand your complete reply.
I tried installing vlc from backports using the command - sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install vlc
and still i get 1.1.3 and still the same problem exists.

You said we need to get past the ffmpeg 0.6 barrier, does it mean i cannot get video working now, i mean until ffmpeg 0.6?

Thanks,
Nachi

[stevepusser]

If you want to try a GUI, install Synaptic, then in its Settings/Preferences/Distribution, tell it to prefer packages from squeeze-backports. This should allow it to show the newer vlc and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg from dmo backports and the official backports repo. If you don't see them, try the "versions" tab to see if they are at least visible; if not, there's some problem with your repository list.

Remember to set the distribution back to "stable" after a successful upgrade.

What I mean by the "0.6" barrier is that Squeeze ships with ffmpeg 0.5. Upgrading this to the 0.7 in DMO, or the 0.8 in squeeze-backports, breaks some program's playback of certain files, notably vlc, until a newer version of the program is compiled against the newer ffmpeg headers. However, I have not seen this breakage with vlc compiled against ffmpeg-0.6, even after upgrading ffmpeg to 0.11.1

[nachiappan]

Hi stevepusser,

I changed the preference to backports and tried the versions tab, both say 1.1.3 and it is the one from the stable repo.
Any idea why it is not picking up the latest from the backports ?

Thanks,
Nachi

[stevepusser]

Therefore, there must be something wrong with the list of repositories...if you are reloading them in Synaptic, or the command in the terminal "apt-get update"

Can you cut and paste the contents of the your /etc/apt/sources.list file here? It's a plain text file that has the list of repositories that the APT system uses (Synaptic being a GUI front-end to apt-get)

[nachiappan]

Here goes sources.lst

#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20120512-20:40]/ squeeze main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20120512-20:40]/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free

#backports
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

#debian multimedia
deb http://deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

Thanks,
Nachi

[kmathern]

Add the deb-multimedia.org 'squeeze-backports' repo shown below.

It has vlc version 2.0.1 in it (apt-cache policy will show it as "1:2.0.1-0.squeeze1", ignore the "1:" part)

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deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze-backports main

[nachiappan]

Even after installing the 2.0.1 version, still I dont see video and only audio gets played

Should I reinstall debian ?

[godlover]

I Removed Deb-multimedia repository AND Uninstalled(Purged) all packages from deb-multimedia repository.It removed vlc and smplayer.I reinstalled "vlc".And everything works fine.