After this update VLC no longer plays any videos with the Codec: AOMedia’s AV1 Video (av01) although it worked fine before
Can someone please guide me in the right direction? half of my videos are in this format. Only the sound plays from these videos, the video itself shows only black now.
Olli
9 November 2023 17:14
2
nvidia ?
please post the output of the mandatory
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
post it within the option “preformatted text”
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Wollie
9 November 2023 17:32
3
For videos with AV1 video codec you need on of the following packages being installed:
aom, dav1d, svt-av1
Reference:
https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/
I would choose dav1d , it’s in the Manjaro repos and could be installed via Pamac or pacman:
sudo pacman -Syu --asdeps dav1d
Thank you Olli for replying so quickly, yup i’m on Nvidia. There was no issue at all before the update I don’t know what happened or changed.
Please see the inxi output below:
System:
Kernel: 6.1.60-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=02464895-dc4c-472d-b07a-41ae11fd7d2a rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1
apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.9 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z97I-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2302 date: 11/04/2014
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.57 GiB used: 7.06 GiB (45.4%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-4690K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell gen: core 4
level: v3 note: check built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6
model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
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: 3601 high: 3624 min/max: 800/3900 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3611 2: 3561 3: 3609
4: 3624 bogomips: 27998
Flags: abm acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2
bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce
md_clear mmx monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid
pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand
rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp
syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi
vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
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: 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
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
v: 535.129.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+ status: current
(as of 2023-11; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx
process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-2019 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: none off: DVI-I-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1,HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:13c2 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 120 s-size: 406x229mm (15.98x9.02")
s-diag: 466mm (18.35")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 note: disabled model: BenQ XL2430T serial: <filter>
built: 2014 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2 size: 531x298mm (20.91x11.73")
diag: 609mm (24") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: gbm: drv: nvidia
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 535.129.03 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 3.91 GiB
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 layers: 8 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 driver: nvidia v: 535.129.03
device-ID: 10de:13c2 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 9
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbb class-ID: 0403
Device-3: [] driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-10:4 chip-ID: 27ac:1002
class-ID: 0300
API: ALSA v: k6.1.60-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.83 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: pipewire-media-session status: active 3: pipewire-alsa
type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: f040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:15a1 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: wl v: kernel modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:43b1 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: ASUSTek [] driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-11:5 chip-ID: 0b05:17cf class-ID: fe01
serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 3.11 TiB (85.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000BX500SSD1
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 056 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 3.0 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: HDD rpm: 5400
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0000 scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GH24NSC0 rev: LK00
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 12 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 771.09 GiB size: 757.92 GiB (98.29%)
used: 558.12 GiB (73.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: N/A
uuid: 02464895-dc4c-472d-b07a-41ae11fd7d2a
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 400 MiB size: 399.2 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: NO_LABEL
uuid: ABB8-0FB2
ID-3: /run/media/sera/9CCEA022CE9FF2AE raw-size: 159.91 GiB
size: 159.91 GiB (100.00%) used: 128.58 GiB (80.4%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda3
maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A uuid: 9CCEA022CE9FF2AE
ID-4: /run/media/sera/Arc Reborn raw-size: 931.51 GiB
size: 915.82 GiB (98.31%) used: 873.94 GiB (95.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1
maj-min: 8:33 label: Arc Reborn uuid: 8a309032-ae14-40c3-87c2-1ea36ee58fe2
ID-5: /run/media/sera/New Terra raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (98.37%)
used: 1.59 TiB (88.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: New Terra
uuid: 8e60aed3-da3e-4fe9-bb3c-a34cdcc1361e
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: DA9B-6C6C
ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel [] ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:8009 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:8001
class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-2:2 info: SteelSeries ApS [] type: HID,mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 1038:137a class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 3-5:3 info: Cooler Master Storm Quick Fire TK 6keys
type: keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 2516:0011 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 3-10:4 info: [] type: audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 27ac:1002 class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 3-11:5 info: ASUSTek [] type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
chip-ID: 0b05:17cf class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 4-1:2 info: BUFFALO (formerly Mel ) [] type: mass storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 power: 896mA chip-ID: 0411:021c class-ID: 0806
serial: <filter>
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 62 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 31%
Info:
Processes: 249 Uptime: 1h 4m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 alt: 11/12
clang: 16.0.6 Packages: 1572 pm: pacman pkgs: 1485 libs: 423 tools: pamac
pm: flatpak pkgs: 87 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.31
Olli
9 November 2023 17:38
5
you’ll need to build it from aur
pamac build libva-nvidia-driver
reboot, check, report.
It seems that dav1d is already installed from before…
Wollie
9 November 2023 17:42
7
This package is currently only available from Manjaro repos in unstable branch.
If this package would solve your issue you need to change to unstable branch, then it could be installed.
Or you wait until it reaches testing or stable.
Or you install the git version (that’s the only one available from AUR):
libva-nvidia-driver-git
from AUR.
P.S.: Be aware it could be in conflict with libva-vdpau-driver
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Can I know why this happened? I have always been on stable branch because it’s supposedly the most stable one (hence the name ) and I don’t have aur enabled because I read that it’s not properly supported and it’s better not to use it… So I only use the official manjaro repos and flatpaks…
(P.S. I want to reply both to Wollie and Olli but I don’t know how - this reply is to both)
libva-nvidia-driver
was recently imported to the Arch extra repo and removed from the AUR.
See: [PRQ#50485] Deletion Request for libva-nvidia-driver
If you don’t want to wait for it to reach the stable branch, you can build it yourself manually just like you would an AUR package :
sudo pacman -Syu base-devel git
git clone https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/libva-nvidia-driver.git
cd libva-nvidia-driver
makepkg -srif
You can either quote their post in your reply or tag them using the @ symbol; i.e, @Randomname123
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Thank you @Wollie @Olli @Yochanan
I don’t think i’m going to tinker with the aur branch, maybe it’s best if I just wait for libva-nvidia-driver to reach the stable branch? I hope that will solve the issue.
Any idea how long it might take to reach stable?
And thank you all for the clear instructions and for the correct terminal commands.
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Keep monitoring the Stable announcements lists (You do this anyway, right?). There should at least a brief mention of it whenever libva-nvidia-driver
reaches Stable.
I imagine it shouldn’t take too long.
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banjo
9 November 2023 21:44
12
Just use mpv or celluloid for the time waiting.
I sincerely hope so!
Yeah I was thinking about mpv, good idea.
Ben
10 November 2023 04:55
14
These things are measured with a piece of string.
Also, I can’t say I was ever enamoured with VLC - I’d say that the best alternative is MPV, but also QMPlay2 is fairly nice with some interesting extras (like a window that finds mp3’s of just about anything you fancy, and a superb radio browser).
And… for the record, just how long is this piece of string?
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Ben
10 November 2023 08:38
16
Exactly twice as long as from the middle to one end.
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I’ve been using VLC through windows > mac > linux (I’m obviously improving :P) just because it plays almost anything you throw at it, it’s also lightweight and doesn’t do 1,000 different things that I don’t need it to do… but I think MPV is also very good. I think i’ll use it until VLC works again…
Randomname123:
it’s also lightweight
Ermm…
$ pamac info vlc
Name : vlc
Version : 3.0.19-1
Description : Multi-platform MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player
URL : https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Licences : LGPL2.1 GPL2
Repository : extra
Installed Size : 62.9 MB
[...]
vs
$ pamac info mpv
Name : mpv
Version : 1:0.36.0-1
Description : a free, open source, and cross-platform media player
URL : https://mpv.io/
Licences : GPL3
Repository : extra
Installed Size : 6.3 MB
[...]
I don’t know if I’d call that lightweight…
A 62.9MB program is totally lightweight in my book…
6.3MB isn’t lightweight though. It’s featherweight.
(If anyone posts in the future about a media player that’s less than 1MB in size we can call it microweight for reference. Putting this here just in case…)
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