Pix on linux Mint 21.3 XFCE can't paly video correctly

Miguelin3mil commented 7 months ago

Distribution

Mint 21.3

Package version

3.2.2

Frequency

Always

Bug description

Pix play video shrink and in black and white, no colors. Changing to gThumb have the same problem.

Steps to reproduce

Just after install new Linux Mint version 21.3 and get updates. Open a folder with images and video, imagen show fine, video shrink. Captura de pantalla_2024-01-27_14-54-25

Expected behavior

Play video correctly, at whole screen and in color. Some reports from Cinnamon users not detect that problem at XFCE version.

Additional information

Pix at Linux Mint XFCE 20.3 worked fine, the problem is just in new version 21.3. Installing gThumb to use it, is the same, perhaps is a libs problem. We have a thread about this at Linux Mint Forum: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=412257

leigh123linux commented 7 months ago

Why aren't you using a proper media player eg: vlc, mpv?

leigh123linux commented 7 months ago

If you insist on using pix I would recommend that you remove the gstreamer vaapi package.

Miguelin3mil commented 7 months ago

Thanks for answer.

For play videos I use celluloid and vlc.

For my class lessons I use Pix to show images and videos. I just change the name of each image and video, and I change it for numbers, like: 1.jpg, 2.png, 3.mp4, 4.png ... for example, and Pix show in order all images an videos, and the videos start automatically.

Some times is better than a presentation software.

I cans't uninstall "gstreamer1.0-vaapi" because ask me to uninstall "mint-meta-codecs", and I think I will loose some performance on my computer.

leigh123linux commented 7 months ago

mint-meta-codecs is an empty package with deps, it's safe to remove it.

Miguelin3mil commented 7 months ago

It work!!!! :D

Yes, I see the packages of "mint-meta_codes", and are some files at "/usr/share/doc/", nothing esential.

Thanks.

I will report it at Linux Mint forum.

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