Cannot play mkv or mp4 videos

[aspizu]

What Happened?

video is blank
audio is fine
cant play any videos
i have installed ubuntu-restricted-packages

Steps to Reproduce

play video

Expected Behavior

video should play

OS Version

6.x (Odin)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

[theoteno]

Is it the flatpak version, maybe?
That might help a bit, but I didn't used the default video player on Elementary that much . . .

[aspizu]

the one which comes with odin

[theoteno]

It's probably flatpak, but I don't know what breaked the video playback. (drivers, etc.)

I'd recommend to build videos2, or Cinema(playmyvideos) from source code: it's actually well documented how to do it, both players are written in Vala & look very similar designwise.

Maybe even Celluloid would look great in elementary theme, and you don't need to compile & build that app.

[danirabbit]

With the latest videos on OS 8, I'm able to play mkv and mp4 videos. I'm guessing this is maybe an issue due to an older release or a mismatched version of codecs. This should be solved now that we're shipping Flathub and the current runtimes should stay up to date automatically

[robot3human0]

With the latest videos on OS 8, I'm able to play mkv and mp4 videos. I'm guessing this is maybe an issue due to an older release or a mismatched version of codecs. This should be solved now that we're shipping Flathub and the current runtimes should stay up to date automatically

Actualy it stilll doesn't play any video, only audio, just intstall this os and all codecs. another app play video just out of the box.

[jeremypw]

Update I could not get MP4 videos to play in EOS8.1 apart from the sound (nor in the pre-release version of EOS9). Installed VLC from .deb and the restricted extras package. Made no different to Videos although VLC played the files OK. Videos played .avi and .mpeg video files OK though.

[danirabbit]

@jeremypw flatpak apps don't use host codecs. Videos uses the codecs supplied in org.freedesktop.Platform.codecs-extra. It looks like Ryo updated those to the latest recently #419

[jeremypw]

@danirabbit I have org.freedesktop.Platform.codecs-extra 25.08 installed but Flatpak Videos still plays MP4 audio only. It would be good if Videos could give some user feedback about a missing codec issue.