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04-21-2017, 12:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2014
Location: India
Distribution: CentOS
Posts: 75
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Debian Jessie cannot play mkv videos
I am trying to play mkv file but vlc goes blank & doesnot play the video. I am able to play the same video using Xubuntu on the same hardware.
What I am missing here?
OS version
Code:
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1 (2016-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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04-21-2017, 01:05 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2010
Location: EU mainland
Distribution: Debian like
Posts: 1,186
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04-21-2017, 01:07 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Distribution: SuSE, RedHat, Slack,CentOS
Posts: 27,666
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Harshit_24
I am trying to play mkv file but vlc goes blank & doesnot play the video. I am able to play the same video using Xubuntu on the same hardware. What I am missing here? OS version
Code:
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1 (2016-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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As with your other thread (related?), you're missing details that would let us help you. What version of VLC, installed how, and did you install the relevant codecs? |
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04-21-2017, 03:02 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2008
Posts: 22,361
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VLC has been able to run that file for a very long time.
As I recall there is some setting in vlc to fix this. It's how it connects to display but I forget exact setting. Worked for me a long time ago.
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04-21-2017, 05:11 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Abingdon, VA
Distribution: Catalina
Posts: 9,374
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libdvdcss2 possibly.
Code:
sudo aptitude install -y libdvdcss2
and re-fire the mk file in vlc
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04-22-2017, 01:50 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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try mplayer instead.
also, have you updated your system?
Code:
su
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
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04-22-2017, 05:55 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Abingdon, VA
Distribution: Catalina
Posts: 9,374
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I have Jessie and some mk4 files. They work here.
Some of my Videos started out black, but they were on a network resource.
I copied them locally and blackness went bye-bye.
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04-22-2017, 11:03 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: London
Distribution: PCLinuxOS, Salix
Posts: 6,243
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It seems that MKV is a container that can hold various encodings. The best thing to do is to install all the codecs available for Debian
http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs |
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04-22-2017, 11:04 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Harshit_24
I am trying to play mkv file but vlc goes blank & doesnot play the video. I am able to play the same video using Xubuntu on the same hardware.
What I am missing here?
OS version
Code:
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1 (2016-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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bad file that is what it is when that happens to me |
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