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#1 Post by **ostrog** » Mon May 05, 2025 11:50 am

Hello,
I have problems with video playback. My browser (Librewolf), VLC and Celluloid all don't play videos.
VLC reports that it can't decode h264 and vp9.
The only software that works is Ungoogled Chromium which apparently comes prebuild with codecs.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-34-amd64 [6.1.135-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-34-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23.6_KDE_x64 Libretto
    April 13 2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: FUJITSU product: ESPRIMO P400 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
    type: 6 v: C$PHW3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: FUJITSU model: D2990-A2 v: S26361-D2990-A2 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: FUJITSU //
    American Megatrends v: 4.6.5.3 R1.30.0 for D2990-A2x date: 04/22/2015
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge gen: core 3 level: v2
    built: 2012-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB
    L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1767 high: 1797 min/max: 1600/3600 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
    governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1794 2: 1748 3: 1729 4: 1797 bogomips: 25542
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: disabled; RSB
    filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Fujitsu Solutions
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7 process: Intel 22nm built: 2012-13 ports: active: none
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0152 class-ID: 0380
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] vendor: PC Partner / Sapphire driver: nvidia
    v: 535.216.03 non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Pascal code: GP10x
    process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-21 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1c81 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv dri: crocus
    gpu: i915,nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 81 s-size: 602x343mm (23.70x13.50") s-diag: 693mm (27.28")
  Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27.01")
    modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.216.03 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio vendor: Fujitsu Solutions 6
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: PC Partner / Sapphire
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1
    chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-34-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Fujitsu Solutions
    RTL8211DN on Esprimo P510 D3171 driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.55 TiB used: 1.13 TiB (24.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Hitachi model: HDS5C3030ALA630 size: 2.73 TiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5700 serial: <filter> rev: A5C0
    scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 size: 1.82 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 100.65 GiB size: 98.51 GiB (97.87%) used: 14.21 GiB (14.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 500 MiB size: 499 MiB (99.80%) used: 36.2 MiB (7.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdb5 maj-min: 8:21
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 1.35 TiB size: 1.33 TiB (98.35%) used: 1.12 TiB (83.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sdb4 maj-min: 8:20
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.04 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb2
    maj-min: 8:18
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 46%
Repos:
  Packages: 3518 pm: dpkg pkgs: 3464 libs: 1733 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,deb-get,nala,synaptic
    pm: rpm pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 54
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/librewolf-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad-browser.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/stable bookworm main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://it.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://it.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/protonvpn-stable.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/protonvpn-stable-archive-keyring.gpg] https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable main
Info:
  Processes: 270 Uptime: 6h 23m wakeups: 19 Memory: 15.54 GiB used: 3.92 GiB (25.2%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

ffmpeg and libavcodec59 are preinstalled.
I installed mx-codecs and installed the codecs there, but this didn't helped either.
Why doesn't it work?

#2 Post by **j2mcgreg** » Mon May 05, 2025 11:57 am

Please post a link to one of these video that won't run.

#3 Post by **Stevo** » Mon May 05, 2025 12:19 pm

Please, the exact message that VLC is giving you.
And the result of "vainfo" in the terminal.
You may just have to disable automatic hardware acceleration in VLC's Input/Codecs settings.

VLC can't do va-api hardware-accelerated playback of vp9 with your Intel GPU, but it should of most h264, and it should be able to use brute force CPU decoding. Mine, for example:

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$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.18.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.18 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 24.2.8-1mx23ahs for AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi, renoir, LLVM 15.0.6, DRM 3.49, 6.1.0-34-amd64)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

#4 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Mon May 05, 2025 3:42 pm

quite possible the video's themselves are issue, especially if drm is involved.

#5 Post by **ostrog** » Tue May 06, 2025 7:58 am

j2mcgreg wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 11:57 am Please post a link to one of these video that won't run.

Most of my videos are either private or copyrighted. But here is a link to an open source one: https://download.blender.org/peach/bigb ... 20x180.mp4

Stevo wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 12:19 pm Please, the exact message that VLC is giving you.
And the result of "vainfo" in the terminal.
You may just have to disable automatic hardware acceleration in VLC's Input/Codecs settings.

VLC can't do va-api hardware-accelerated playback of vp9 with your Intel GPU, but it should of most h264, and it should be able to use brute force CPU decoding. Mine, for example:

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$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.18.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.18 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 24.2.8-1mx23ahs for AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi, renoir, LLVM 15.0.6, DRM 3.49, 6.1.0-34-amd64)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

Thank you for your answer. The VLC error is:

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Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))

The output of "vainfo" is:

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libva info: VA-API version 1.18.0
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

Deactivating automatic hardware acceleration in VLC didn't helped.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 3:42 pm quite possible the video's themselves are issue, especially if drm is involved.

No video work. Be it selfmade videos or downloaded videos.

#6 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Tue May 06, 2025 8:21 am

probably worth checking some versions.

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apt policy ffmpeg libavcodec59 libopenh264-7

is ungoogled chromium a flatpak or how is that installed?

#7 Post by **j2mcgreg** » Tue May 06, 2025 8:34 am

@ostrog wrote:

Most of my videos are either private or copyrighted. But here is a link to an open source one: https://download.blender.org/peach/bigb ... 20x180.mp4

I have no problem playing that video.
Your QSI shows that you have a VPN installed. Can you access and run any of these problem videos after disabling the VPN.

#8 Post by **ostrog** » Tue May 06, 2025 10:00 am

dolphin_oracle wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 8:21 am probably worth checking some versions.
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apt policy ffmpeg libavcodec59 libopenh264-7 
is ungoogled chromium a flatpak or how is that installed?

No other versions as far as I can tell:

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ffmpeg:
  Installed: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
  Candidate: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
  Version table:
 *** 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libavcodec59:
  Installed: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
  Candidate: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
  Version table:
 *** 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libopenh264-7:
  Installed: 2.3.1+dfsg-3+deb12u2
  Candidate: 2.3.1+dfsg-3+deb12u2
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.1+dfsg-3+deb12u2 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.3.1+dfsg-3+deb12u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages

Oh, yeah, I forget to mention that Ungoogled chromium is a Flatpak application unlike the other applications, so it may work because it run on it's own dependencies.

j2mcgreg wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 8:34 am @ostrog wrote:
Most of my videos are either private or copyrighted. But here is a link to an open source one: https://download.blender.org/peach/bigb ... 20x180.mp4
I have no problem playing that video.
Your QSI shows that you have a VPN installed. Can you access and run any of these problem videos after disabling the VPN.

I think you misunderstood me. We are talking primarily about local files, so accessing the videos is not the problem.

I drag and drop the local video into my browser and this is the error I get: "No video with supported format and MIME type found."

#9 Post by **j2mcgreg** » Tue May 06, 2025 10:14 am

@ostrog wrote:

I think you misunderstood me. We are talking primarily about local files, so accessing the videos is not the problem.

I drag and drop the local video into my browser and this is the error I get: "No video with supported format and MIME type found."

Are these local problem files created by you or from another source? And if so, what source is that?

#10 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Tue May 06, 2025 11:35 am

ostrog wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 10:00 am
dolphin_oracle wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 8:21 am probably worth checking some versions.
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apt policy ffmpeg libavcodec59 libopenh264-7 
is ungoogled chromium a flatpak or how is that installed?
No other versions as far as I can tell:
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ffmpeg:
  Installed: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
  Candidate: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
  Version table:
 *** 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libavcodec59:
  Installed: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
  Candidate: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1
  Version table:
 *** 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libopenh264-7:
  Installed: 2.3.1+dfsg-3+deb12u2
  Candidate: 2.3.1+dfsg-3+deb12u2
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.1+dfsg-3+deb12u2 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.3.1+dfsg-3+deb12u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages
Oh, yeah, I forget to mention that Ungoogled chromium is a Flatpak application unlike the other applications, so it may work because it run on it's own dependencies.

j2mcgreg wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 8:34 am @ostrog wrote:
Most of my videos are either private or copyrighted. But here is a link to an open source one: https://download.blender.org/peach/bigb ... 20x180.mp4
I have no problem playing that video.
Your QSI shows that you have a VPN installed. Can you access and run any of these problem videos after disabling the VPN.
I think you misunderstood me. We are talking primarily about local files, so accessing the videos is not the problem.

I drag and drop the local video into my browser and this is the error I get: "No video with supported format and MIME type found."

yep all that looks normal.

and you also can't play that big bunny video you linked, correct? at least in vlc?

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