VLC no longer plays any videos with the Codec: AOMedia’s AV1 Video (av01)

Randomname123 · 9 November 2023 17:35

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:
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Battery:
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Memory:
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RAID:
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Sensors:
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Info:
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Olli · 9 November 2023 17:38

you’ll need to build it from aur

pamac build libva-nvidia-driver

reboot, check, report.

Randomname123 · 9 November 2023 17:38

It seems that dav1d is already installed from before…

Wollie · 9 November 2023 17:42

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

Randomname123 · 9 November 2023 17:46

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)

Yochanan · 9 November 2023 17:52

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

Randomname123 · 9 November 2023 18:12

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.

soundofthunder · 9 November 2023 21:38

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.

banjo · 9 November 2023 21:44

Just use mpv or celluloid for the time waiting.

Randomname123 · 10 November 2023 04:21

I sincerely hope so!

Yeah I was thinking about mpv, good idea.

Ben · 10 November 2023 04:55

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).

soundofthunder · 10 November 2023 06:19

And… for the record, just how long is this piece of string?

Ben · 10 November 2023 08:38

Exactly twice as long as from the middle to one end.

Randomname123 · 10 November 2023 15:06

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 · 10 November 2023 15:07

Mirdarthos · 10 November 2023 15:19

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…

Randomname123 · 10 November 2023 15:46

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…)

soundofthunder · 10 November 2023 16:17

Name                  : cmus
Version               : 2.10.0-4
Description           : Feature-rich ncurses-based music player
URL                   : https://cmus.github.io/
Licences              : GPL
Repository            : extra
Installed Size        : 870.7 kB

Of course, if you want video, that probably costs extra.

Randomname123 · 10 November 2023 17:45

Yup, I had a feeling that this was going to happen…

Lol … $2 for video capabilities and another extra $10 if you want the AV1 Video Codec to be included with it as well…

Ben · 11 November 2023 02:44

MPV was a fork of MPlayer - removing cruft and adding modern features - written in C and worth learning more about (RTFM).

Linuxlinks gives some nice listings - You searched for media player - LinuxLinks

Familiarity is quite a thing here - personally I find VLC very confusing and difficult to navigate. Similar to Azure over Torrenting software, it packs so many extra features in and can be very confusing…

After testing MPV - jarring, because you suddenly lost your GUI - and now you also have the option to completely lose your Window/border too…

But within a week, it becomes completely comfortable - so much so that testing out VLC again becomes a pain, almost like using Linux for a week and then ending up back on a clunky Windows desktop.

I had some issues with it before using MPV… not saying VLC isn’t a good performer, but

MPV adds another level of performance
generally less glitchy
scope for expansion (e.g. for Anime viewers, you can add shaders etc).

MPV basically sucks less.