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    Video preview not working after dist-upgrade (though i can hear the audio)

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @5schatten
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      @5schatten said in Video preview not working after dist-upgrade (though i can hear the audio):

      I thought he's refering to the VLC project not to the guy who wrote the raspbian patch.

      No, the VLC 'vanilla' doesn't have this problem, it's the MMAL/X11 splitter patch that seems to have introduced it.

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      • 5schatten5
        5schatten @mitu
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        @mitu vanilla has no video output at all for me. ES video previews works for AML S905 & generic Intel systems fine though so it's some kind of messed up RPi implementation. I've tried 3.0.3 / 3.0.4 & the recent 3.0.5. None works without the MMAL patches on RPi but all other builds work fine, of course RPi works only with messed up colors but it's better than nothing.

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        • 5schatten5
          5schatten
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          @mitu since more than a month has passed have you any news about an updated MMAL patch from the devs from the raspberrypi forum?

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @5schatten
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            @5schatten No, the forum post is my only contact with them.

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            • 5schatten5
              5schatten
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              too bad but thanks anyway :-)

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @5schatten
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                @5schatten I think the latest VLC update on Raspbian fixed the inverted colors problem. I'm not sure if wasn't the firmware that was also updated that contributed to the fix, but seems to work fine now.

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                  5schatten @mitu
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                  @mitu said in Video preview not working after dist-upgrade (though i can hear the audio):

                  @5schatten I think the latest VLC update on Raspbian fixed the inverted colors problem. I'm not sure if wasn't the firmware that was also updated that contributed to the fix, but seems to work fine now.

                  This new patchset resolved the problems for me :-) https://github.com/RPi-Distro/vlc/commit/837804c5eb6ff127bb5a3f41c9ce9ed64b6db3b6

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                    mha @5schatten
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                    @5schatten How to install, is it possible thru raspberry setup script?

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                      5schatten @mha
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                      @mha said in Video preview not working after dist-upgrade (though i can hear the audio):

                      @5schatten How to install, is it possible thru raspberry setup script?

                      I guess if you use Raspbian you'll get a patches vlc version from the repository. I compile my LibreELEC fork myself & use the patch set for my vlc lib that is used by Emulationstation.

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                      • TripleMusedT
                        TripleMused
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                        I think I found another solution--I had the same problem. I converted the videos using Handbrake on its normal preset, and now they run fine with both sound and video. They run best using the OMX Player. I only converted about 70 videos, but they all show the previews correctly now.

                        Something like this happened before with the videos from Stephen Selph's scraper, so I just thought I would try it and it worked!

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