Re: NVIDIA Problem

[t_pol]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 08:52:21 -0300
"George N. White III"  wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 23:25, t_pol  wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I've decided to switch from nouveau to Nvidia drivers.
> > Everythings seems ok but I cannot play anymore h24 videos.
> > Both VLC & SMPLAYER just play sounds but no video.
> >
> > this is the error message:
> >
> > Codec not supported:
> > VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))
> >
> > Before the switch everything were OK.
> >
> > I'm running Fedora 31 on an a laptop HP Pavilion dv5.
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
> >
> > Angelo
>
> This is a common problem that runs across distros:
>
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=303173
> https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/530278-VLC-not-playing-mp4-files
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169279
>
> Workarounds include configuration tweaks and using ffmeg to reencode a file
> to get something VLC supports.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding  explains the underlying
> problem:
>
> The commercial use of patented H.264 technologies requires the payment
> of royalties to MPEG LA and other patent owners. MPEG LA has allowed
>  the free use of H.264 technologies for streaming Internet video that is
> free
> to end users, and Cisco Systems
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems pays royalties to MPEG LA on
> behalf of
> the users of binaries for its open source
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software H.264 encoder.
>
> Is your video "streaming Internet video that is free to end users"?    Do
> you
> have rpmfusion ffmeg and vlcextras?
>
> --
> George N. White III

Thanks for your answer George.

Yes I have ffmpeg and No I don't have vlcextras. (I'll install it right away).
Yes I have rpmfusion repos but the driver has been installed from
official NVIDIA site.

The suggested tweaks to reencode every file sounds very annoying.

Coming to the royalties thing, I have to admit I didn't know that.

What is confusing me is:
 - with the nouveau drivers the problem did not exist.
 - vlc and smplayer are not playing even AVI files.

I'm seriously considering to revert back to nouveau.

Anyway thanks very much again for your help.

Ciao,
Angelo

NVIDIA Problem

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2020-04-01 at 18:49 +0200, t_pol wrote:
> Yes I have ffmpeg and No I don't have vlcextras. (I'll install it right away).
> Yes I have rpmfusion repos but the driver has been installed from
> official NVIDIA site.

As has been noted, the recommendation is to uninstall the "official"
Nvidia package and reinstall the RPMfusion version. It's the same
binary but with correct dependencies and will automatically produce a
new binary module when your kernel changes (usually ...)
> The suggested tweaks to reencode every file sounds very annoying.

I've never had to do that and can play H.264 videos with no issues. I
have rpmfusion-free, rpmfusion-free-updates, rpmfusion-nonfree and
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates so all the required codecs are there.
> Coming to the royalties thing, I have to admit I didn't know that.

The royalties are for commercial use.

poc

NVIDIA Problem

[t_pol]

On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:32:47 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan  wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-04-01 at 18:49 +0200, t_pol wrote:
> > Yes I have ffmpeg and No I don't have vlcextras. (I'll install it
> > right away). Yes I have rpmfusion repos but the driver has been
> > installed from official NVIDIA site.
>
> As has been noted, the recommendation is to uninstall the "official"
> Nvidia package and reinstall the RPMfusion version. It's the same
> binary but with correct dependencies and will automatically produce a
> new binary module when your kernel changes (usually ...)

OK I'll surely do that.
The reason why I've decided to install the official driver
is because it uses DKMS vs AKMOD to rebuild on kernel upgrade.
> > The suggested tweaks to reencode every file sounds very annoying.
>
> I've never had to do that and can play H.264 videos with no issues. I
> have rpmfusion-free, rpmfusion-free-updates, rpmfusion-nonfree and
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates so all the required codecs are there.

OK
> > Coming to the royalties thing, I have to admit I didn't know that.
>
> The royalties are for commercial use.

OK
> poc

Thanks a lot for the hint.
Ciao,
Angelo

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