I recently upgrade my system from official repository and now mpv (my videoplayer) doesn’t open any video file but it’s opening compress audio files (.mp3) without problems. Before the upgrade my system work fine but with the last pacman -Syu the problem began.
Theres my uname -a output:
Linux Trilobite 5.14.21-2-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 21 22:43:47 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
sudo mhwd-kernel -li ✔
[sudo] password for neji:
Currently running: 5.14.21-2-MANJARO (linux514)
The following kernels are installed in your system:
* linux510
* linux514
I’m gonna try with linux515 to see if the problem disappear … ¿Or I must to use an LTS kernel like linux510 or similar?
Perhaps the problems it’s not the Kernell but anything related to the video driver or something…
When ir try to debug mpv i got this output:
Thread 12 "mpv/vo" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffcb29e640 (LWP 3875)]
0x00007fffc94cc87c in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
So i think i must look for video driver or something related… the curious thing it’s that before i upgrade the system it worked fine.
I’ve reinstalled my system (LXQt) using and old ISO that I downloaded once from Community in the oficial site.
The system install well but when I make an upgrade (sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack =5 && sudo pacman -Syyu) it fall into the same loop (It plays audio but it doesn’t play any video)
He could just
at least try
using a different
video output
like @maycne.sonahoz suggested
I know that I have used this … way back when (at least a decade ago)
when the default would not work with my hardware.
Yup … And I have been documenting it since 2 forums ago at least … though its almost always about VLC’s automatic (smplayer/mpv/etc never seem to have issue) … but the fact that its so old, makes things you wouldnt normally expect more likely.
This might be an ok test, as it will loop through the listed outputs until one works, and the trailing comma will also try unlisted items if none of them work.
I’m a linux user since 2006 and I admit my hardware it’s not the best from the market (I’m just kidding my Acer Aspire 5 it’s on the way while we’re speaking and I like to use this old hardware to try new version and new systems) and always used this settings, the same settings and hardware that worked perfectly with Manjaro Nibia 21.2 until came the last upgrade that remove or change something that made my old laptop almost unusefull…