I just upgraded from Fedora 14 to 16. Now no move can be played.

Of the several media players I installed, including VLC, when I play DVD movies, I only hear sound, but no video on the screen.

At the end of the installation of Fedora 16, I got a message on the screen saying my video card cannot take advantage of the GNOME 3, and so it fell back to sth else. But I doubt that is related to my problem with playing movie.

Can anyone please share your solution to the issue?

thanks a lot!

post output of

lspci -v



rpmfusion.org?

When you say you upgraded, did you re-install or choose the upgrade option? The latter is not guaranteed to work: Fedora tell you not to skip versions, so 14 to 15 is OK, but not 14 to 16. If you re-installed, then naturally you've got to re-install the codecs; did you?

thanks for responding. Sorry for not being clear. I actually reinstalled the whole Fedora 16, wiping out 14.

Here's the output of lspci -v

[root@erdnuss ~]# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=05 <?>
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: fc800000-fd2fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f5e00000-f7ffffff

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 2440 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 2460 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at fc500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=0080
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
Memory behind bridge: fc200000-fc4fffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 24a0 [size=16]
Memory at 80100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 00b8
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
I/O ports at fc00 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Analog Devices Inc. codec [SoundMAX]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
I/O ports at 2400 [size=64]
Memory at fc500400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at fc500600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: snd_intel8x0
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 82) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G450 Dual Head
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at fd200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at fc800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at f5e00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0
Kernel driver in use: matroxfb
Kernel modules: matroxfb_base

05:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VM (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 0012
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 20
Memory at fc400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 1000 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: e100
Kernel modules: e100

What are the codecs used in vlc? Maybe I need to install them manually? I thought they are already included in the gstreamer or vlc binaries. Am I wrong?

thanks a lot for bring this up!

BTW, upon completion of Fedora 16 installation, I got a message on the screen saying my video device cannot take advantage of the new features in GNOME 3, so it fell back to something else.

I'm not sure if this is related to my video issue in mplayers. I have Matrix Millineum G450 Graphic card, see below. Apparently it is supported.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 82) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G450 Dual Head
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at fd200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at fc800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at f5e00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0
Kernel driver in use: matroxfb
Kernel modules: matroxfb_base

You should have gstreamer, gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-ugly. Does the problem exist for video on the internet, like Youtube? If it's only a problem with commercial DVDs, then you haven't got libdvdcss: get that from http://atrpms.net/documentation/install/

If your graphics card is capable of giving a still picture on the screen, it should be capable of giving a moving one. The use of Gnome fall-back shows that its 3D features are not supported, but they're only needed for games, rotating cubes and the like.

you might want to read fedoraforum
http://www.fedoraforum.org/
there is a yellow link in the top of EVERY page
"Fedora Set-Up Guides"

use Dangermouses "autoplus" ( was autoten)
and have a read through Mjmwired'd page
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f16.html

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...l#mediaplayers

PS if this is a 64 bit install and the videos are *.wmv there is a codec bug
some types of "wmv" will only play on a 32 bit os

thanks for suggesting the material for reading.

My installation is on a 32-bit PC.

All videos, DVD, youtube or anything else, none shows videos, only sound. And I keep seeing popup message showing totem-plugin gets killed when I try to open a news video in a Firefox.

Wikipedia seems to suggest that there may be problems with old Matrox graphics cards and recent Linux versions. You might either of these helps:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/
http://www.opendrivers.com/download/driver-733.html

thanks for the matrox site. I tried to install the driver, but could not find the X11R6 path which is needed.

Where is X installed in Fedora 16?

thanks a lot.

fedora dose not use the VERY old ( for fedora) x11r86
/etc/X11

also that "driver" for the built in chip is in the Linux kernel

there is no need to install a different one for watching Movies
movies have nothing to do with the 3d chip

for a store bought dvd you NEED libdvdcss
VLC is the recommended program

for the average video you DL from the net
Mplayer is the best
Gmplayer is installed by default

I recommend the QT front end SMPlayer - it is in the rpmfusion repo
for gmplayer and VLC Install ALL the xine and gstreamer files from Mjmwired and go to the mplayer web site and grab the current codec package
all-20110131.tar.bz2


but the script Dangermouse made for NEW USERS, IS RECOMMENDED .
Autoplus was MADE for NEW USERS it will give you a selection to install EVERYTHING you need .

Thank you sooo much for all the tips. I followed them and installed all the recommended packages. But still none of the media players installed shows any video.

I think this is most likely related to my specific G450 Matrox graphic card. Maybe I should returned to the media players for Fedora 14, which were all working before I replaced it with Fedora 16.

But how can I install earlier versions? with yum, it installs only the newest version.

Again, many thanks!

as for the old agp card
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/su...oad/certified/
it lists it as updated in july 2006

software that old will NOT work with the current xorg in fedora


you do not ( not easily ) this IS fedora after all
The "newest of the new" and "the bleeding edge" and "Research and Development" operating system .


right now fedora is SO new that old hardware that had XP on it is becoming unsupported
the same for OpenSUSE 12.1( & tumbleweed ) ,Arch ,....


but if you have a gui running Gnome 3 then the graphics are at least " ok"

and mplayer ( in the repos) with the "all-20110131.tar.bz2 "
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
should play almost everything

that's exactly what puzzled me. I've installed all of them. But none, include mplayer, plays video, only sound.