My system:
Laptop Dell inspiron 15 3000
RAM: 16 GB
SSD 480 GB Kingston
Intel Core i3 7th Generation
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 with Software and System Updates
Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Palemoon. All latest.
Terminal emulator: Yakuake, gnome-terminal.
Other Terminal: TTY1
Internet service provider connection speed: 100 Mbps (asymmetric)
The upgrade
Just recently I have run sudo apt upgrade in order to upgrade my software from a terminal. Before this everything everything used to be fine. I was able to play videos both with video and audio. And the mkv files used to run smoothly allowing to select any language/subtitle or any other option in the file.
The error received
I am using mpv to play my mkv and other format files like ogv, mpg, mpeg2, mp4, etc.
After upgrading all the Software in my system, I started having this kind of screen instead of the video itself.
Other video players have similar behavior becoming unresponsive after few seconds and throwing high processor loads, but it seems that they are looking for a codec, plugin or something in order to do a good job, but they aren't reaching it.
mplayer
Seems to be the only way I can play this videos, with some errors like wrong video duration.
This video was only played by using the next:
geppettvs@DM4:~/Peliculas$ mplayer BIRDS\ OF\ PREY.2020.WEB-DL.1080P-Ignacio\ Hd.mkv
MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing BIRDS OF PREY.2020.WEB-DL.1080P-Ignacio Hd.mkv.
libavformat version 57.83.100 (external)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0, Ignacio Hd
[lavf] stream 1: audio (ac3), -aid 0, -alang spa, Ignacio Hd
[lavf] stream 2: audio (ac3), -aid 1, -alang eng, Ignacio Hd
[lavf] stream 3: subtitle (srt), -sid 0, -slang spa, Ignacio Hd
[lavf] stream 4: video (mjpeg), -vid 1
[lavf] stream 5: video (mjpeg), -vid 2
VIDEO: [H264] 1920x802 0bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 57.107.100 (external)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
Clip info:
title: Aves de Presa (y la Fantabulosa Emancipación de Harley Quinn) (2020) Latino HD WEB-DL 1080P - LatinoMegaHD
encoder: libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1
creation_time: 2020-03-24T06:43:53.000000Z
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 256.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 32000->384000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 2.39:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1920x802 => 1920x802 Planar YV12
A: 9.8 V: 9.8 A-V: 0.000 ct: 0.042 0/ 0 38% 1% 0.7% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)
[mié mar 25 08:08:44 CST 2020] geppettvs@DM4:~/Peliculas$ mplayer BIRDS\ OF\ PREY.2020.WEB-DL.1080P-Ignacio\ Hd.mkv
MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing BIRDS OF PREY.2020.WEB-DL.1080P-Ignacio Hd.mkv.
libavformat version 57.83.100 (external)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0, Ignacio Hd
[lavf] stream 1: audio (ac3), -aid 0, -alang spa, Ignacio Hd
[lavf] stream 2: audio (ac3), -aid 1, -alang eng, Ignacio Hd
[lavf] stream 3: subtitle (srt), -sid 0, -slang spa, Ignacio Hd
[lavf] stream 4: video (mjpeg), -vid 1
[lavf] stream 5: video (mjpeg), -vid 2
VIDEO: [H264] 1920x802 0bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 57.107.100 (external)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
Clip info:
title: Aves de Presa (y la Fantabulosa Emancipación de Harley Quinn) (2020) Latino HD WEB-DL 1080P - LatinoMegaHD
encoder: libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1
creation_time: 2020-03-24T06:43:53.000000Z
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 256.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 32000->384000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 2.39:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1920x802 => 1920x802 Planar YV12
A: 15.5 V: 15.5 A-V: 0.000 ct: 0.042 0/ 0 36% 1% 0.6% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)
mpv
Please notice the mpv screen is the black square in the middle of the screenshot.
I mean: this square.
mpv information
mpv 0.27.2 (C) 2000-2017 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
built on UNKNOWN
ffmpeg library versions:
libavutil 55.78.100
libavcodec 57.107.100
libavformat 57.83.100
libswscale 4.8.100
libavfilter 6.107.100
libswresample 2.9.100
ffmpeg version: 3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.
smplayer
This is smplayer with the same video, you can notice some weird artifacts instead of the video.
smplayer information
This is SMPlayer v. 19.10.2 (revision 9245) running on Linux
vlc
VLC shows a black screen and a line running from left to right, like searching for the proper video codec or something, becoming unresponsive after some seconds.
vlc information
VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7)
VLC version 3.0.8 Vetinari (3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7)
Compiled by buildd on lcy01-amd64-014.buildd (Sep 11 2019 11:39:37)
Compiler: gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by the VideoLAN team; see the AUTHORS file.
Other video software information and players used for testing
ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.18.04.1 --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-gpl --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libmysofa --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librubberband --enable-librsvg --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-libzvbi --enable-omx --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-sdl2 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdrm --enable-libiec61883 --enable-chromaprint --enable-frei0r --enable-libopencv --enable-libx264 --enable-shared
libavutil 55. 78.100 / 55. 78.100
libavcodec 57.107.100 / 57.107.100
libavformat 57. 83.100 / 57. 83.100
libavdevice 57. 10.100 / 57. 10.100
libavfilter 6.107.100 / 6.107.100
libavresample 3. 7. 0 / 3. 7. 0
libswscale 4. 8.100 / 4. 8.100
libswresample 2. 9.100 / 2. 9.100
libpostproc 54. 7.100 / 54. 7.100
parole
Parole Media Player 1.0.1
totem
totem 3.26.0
libvdpau-va-gl1
As @nobody asked, I checked if libvdpau-va-gl1 is installed in my system, resulting that I didn't have it.
After installing I tried to open the video file resulting in a more clean layout but no full video so far.
Thank you a lot for your wish to help.
dpkg -l | grep gstreamer
geppettvs@DM4:~$ dpkg -l | grep gstreamer
ii gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GObject introspection data for the GStreamer library
ii gstreamer-qapt 3.0.4-0ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugin to install codecs using QApt
ii gstreamer1.0-adapter-pulseeffects:amd64 4.7.2-3~bionic2 amd64 Gstreamer adapter
ii gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer1.0-autogain-pulseeffects:amd64 4.7.2-3~bionic2 amd64 Gstreamer crystalizer
ii gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0:amd64 3.0.26-1 amd64 Clutter PLugin for GStreamer 1.0
ii gstreamer1.0-convolver-pulseeffects:amd64 4.7.2-3~bionic2 amd64 Gstreamer convolver
ii gstreamer1.0-crystalizer-pulseeffects:amd64 4.7.2-3~bionic2 amd64 Gstreamer crystalizer
ii gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3:amd64 0.10.32.debian-1 amd64 Fluendo mp3 decoder GStreamer 1.0 plugin
ii gstreamer1.0-gl:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugins for GL
ii gstreamer1.0-gtk3:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for GTK+3
ii gstreamer1.0-libav:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 libav plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer1.0-nice:amd64 0.1.14-1 amd64 ICE library (GStreamer plugin)
ii gstreamer1.0-packagekit 1.1.9-1ubuntu2.18.04.5 amd64 GStreamer plugin to install codecs using PackageKit
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:i386 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 i386 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer helper programs from the "base" set
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii gstreamer1.0-tools 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 Tools for use with GStreamer
ii gstreamer1.0-x:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer GL libraries
ii libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer libraries from the "bad" set
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 i386 GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer development files for libraries from the "good" set
ii libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii libgstreamer1.0-0:i386 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 i386 Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10 amd64 GStreamer backend for LibreOffice
ii phonon-backend-gstreamer:amd64 4:4.9.0-1 amd64 Phonon GStreamer 1.0 backend
ii phonon-backend-gstreamer-common:amd64 4:4.9.0-1 amd64 Phonon GStreamer 1.0.x backend icons
ii phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer:amd64 4:4.9.0-1 amd64 Phonon Qt5 GStreamer 1.0 backend
libvdpau-va-gl1on your system? – nobody Mar 25 '20 at 17:14dpkg -l | grep gstreamerI only use mpv.cat .config/mpv/configwhich gpu? – nobody Mar 25 '20 at 17:36cat: .config/mpv/config: No such file or directory. I have added the results ofdpkg -l | grep gstreamer. And I don't think this issue is related to the GPU as they worked pretty fine before the Software upgrade and they can be played via mplayer in a terminal. Anyway:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 5921 (rev 06)(Default Laptop's Intel GPU. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Mar 25 '20 at 18:13