Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:44:03PM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, > Hi > > instead of going berserk mode and wasting kWh on rebuilding “just in case it > might help”, why not try and dig a little deeper. > >> A couple of my video players are not playing videos correctly. > Whicch players? > >> I've >> rebuilt a few things but no change. Some work fine, some give a error >> about a bad index or something, some just don't even try at all. > What is the exact error message? > Can you remux the file with ffmpeg? > `ffmpeg -i Inputfile.ext -c copy -map 0 Outputfile.ext` > This will take all streams of the input file and put them into a new file > without re-encoding. Does ffmpeg give any errors about bad data? Can you > play the produced file? > >> The videos come from various sources and are of different file extensions. > Can we have a look at some of those videos? The least I can try is to see > whether they work here or show any sign of corruption. >
I think one of the videos had something bad that was causing other issues somehow. I ended up deleting any video that didn't have a thumbnail and rebooting, to make sure all processes were killed. This started with I believe a bad file. Then it affected other videos I tried to watch. Once I rebooted, everything was back to normal. While I think it was a bad video, I'm not sure it was that either. It is odd that rebooting fixed it tho. I only had to rebuild a few packages since I have it set to save binaries of everything I build. It's just that those few packages wouldn't work for some reason. I think it may have had something to do with video file problem. After the reboot, everything worked as expected, including installing from binaries. So, it's all good now. I was actually in the process of starting a fresh thread on the video problem. I was collecting info when I started seeing some odd things. I decided to reboot to see what that did. I wasn't expecting it to fix the whole problem, this isn't windoze after all, but it did. It's been running fine ever since. Now I just wish I knew exactly what the cause was. Was it the video, something else, something I'd never think of? Lots of questions. No real way to answer them tho. Hard to diagnose something that is working. lol Thanks for offering to look into it tho. I was working on it when the reboot fixed it. Now to read and think over replies to thread about a new case. Sort of skimmed over it. Sounds like ideas for better mobos, which may be a good idea. Dale :-) :-)
