No video players are playing video

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This is quite the doozy of an issue. VLC will straight up not launch at all let alone open a file, Gwenview plays audio if I’m lucky, the other videoplayers I have downloaded have had the same issue as VLC. The common fix I have seen for this issue is gst-libsav reinstallation but that has unfortunately not worked.
I’m still fairly new to Linux and am having a hard time reading error logs.
This is what I got from my Console while trying to run a video in Gwenview:

kf.i18n.kuit: "Unknown subcue ':whatsthis,' in UI marker in context {@info:whatsthis, %1 the action's text}." org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type "image/x-mng" org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved raw mime type "image/x-samsung-srw" QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2 QPainter::setOpacity: Painter not active QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) gwenview

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I can’t imagine that the Gwenview image viewer can also play videos. Well, I’ve learned something new again.

What does mpv say?

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I’m not quite sure what you mean, but I tried using it as a command in the console and got this interesting error:

kf.i18n.kuit: "Unknown subcue ':whatsthis,' in UI marker in context {@info:whatsthis, %1 the action's text}." org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type "image/x-mng" org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved raw mime type "image/x-samsung-srw" ^C

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I meant what the mpv nedia player does when you try to open a video with it …

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Oh, It flashes open and then immediately closes.

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Can you also give the command you used to play the video?

What does:
file name_of_yourvideofile
return?

Gwenview isn’t a video player - it is an image viewer

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I did gwenview mpv

I’ll be going to work shortly so hopefully this can help though
And gwenview was able to play videos for me up until a little bit ago.
For the command you asked for:

file reimucar.mp4  ✔ reimucar.mp4: cannot open `reimucar.mp4' (No such file or directory)    ~  gwenview reimucar.mp4  ✔ kf.i18n.kuit: "Unknown subcue ':whatsthis,' in UI marker in context {@info:whatsthis, %1 the action's text}." org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type "image/x-mng" org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved raw mime type "image/x-samsung-srw"    ~  gwenview basil/downloads/reimucar.mp4  ✔  7s  kf.i18n.kuit: "Unknown subcue ':whatsthis,' in UI marker in context {@info:whatsthis, %1 the action's text}." org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type "image/x-mng" org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved raw mime type "image/x-samsung-srw"    ~  gwenview downloads/reimucar.mp4  ✔  7s  kf.i18n.kuit: "Unknown subcue ':whatsthis,' in UI marker in context {@info:whatsthis, %1 the action's text}." org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type "image/x-mng" org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved raw mime type "image/x-samsung-srw"

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That doesn’t make any sense.

What you told the computer with this command was:
play the file named mpv using the “player” gwenview

It is virtually certain that the name of your video file is not “mpv”

mpv is the name of a program - a program which actually IS a video player

to play a video file using the mpv video player
you would use the command:
mpv name_of_yourvideofile

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If it’s not already installed then install mpv.

sudo pacman -S mpv

Then run your file from the command line using mpv.

mpv /path/to/file

If it doesn’t play, there should at least be an error message.

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it returns this:
file reimucar.mp4  127 ✘ reimucar.mp4: cannot open `reimucar.mp4' (No such file or directory)

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I will try that and will return this evening.

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This means:
you think you know the name of the file - and it’s location
but it either is not there at all, or not at the location you gave

there is no file named reimucar.mp4 in the current directory

the PATH is incorrect - or the file is not there - or the file name is wrong

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Yes, I am using a random downloaded video. I guess I should try moving it into home so I know for sure where it is when I returrn to continue testing.

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if you want to play it, you need to know where it is

and then give the location to the player you want to use to play it
… the PATH

mpv ~/Downloads/name_of_random_video_file

for example

the same goes for
file reimucar.mp4

the command
file ...
will return the actual file type of that file - not what you think it is
not what the .mp4 suffix might suggest

it will look at the file and tell you what it actually is

You apparently run Plasma.

Use the file manager (Dolphin, I guess) to navigate to it and play it with whatever default application it chooses …

This will end up in a directory in your $HOME
most likely in the ~/Downloads directory
if you did not explicitly changed that.

the output of:
ls -al ~/Downloads
should list it - likely among a lot of other stuff …

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Hello and Welcome to Manjaro/Linux.

When you are new to Linux, the best way is to install the Full Iso Version (not minimal iso). It has the most important stuff already pre-installed and its more easy to go from there.

Then update your installation and choose the right GPU driver under:
Taskbar>Settings>Manjaro Settings Manager>Hardware Configuration

You can also switch your different Kernels under:
Taskbar>Settings>Manjaro Settings Manager>Kernel

For newcommers its also recommend to use LTS Kernels for example LTS 6.6

And after that post your system information:

inxi --admin --verbosity=5 --filter --no-host --width

You can also use drag+drop the video file, to your favoured Videoplayer, i personally recommend SMPlayer with modern skin that you can download additional.

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Yup, I’ve got all of it, only had it for three years and this is the first thing to break that I couldn’t easily fiind documentation for. And i’ve tried all of that, it is just not working after the most recent update.

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Well MPV works. I guess I’ll use that from now on instead of Gwenview.

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I think you got something wrong - gwenview is not a video player it is an image utility.

A part of vlc is a dependency for some plasma functionality - therefore vlc is the defacto videoplayer - I cannot say though why it wouldn’t work for your system - it could be anything.

You can of cource install other video players - technically you don’t need to.

If you install another like mpv - rightclick the file and select Open with … then select the player from the list - also possible to make another player default…

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Gwenview has been able to play videos for many years. I find it very useful as I can play a video & then move it to another folder or delete it via Gwenview’s menu/toolbar.

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Although I don’t use Gwenview as my main video player - Haruna fills that role very nicely.

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I didn’t know … thank you for the enlightening comment …

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