Not working with big video files

[DanilChechkov]

AMD R5 M400 series - big files work with very low fps, about one picture in half of a minute. With VLC player big files ok. With small files ok too, btw, thank you for awesome system and support. Stay same cool

[jeremypw]

How big is big? And what format?

[DanilChechkov]

Mean full hd video, 5gb 50minutes .mkv file

[DanilChechkov]

I can make a video recording if it will be helpful, right now elementary OS moving to a new SSD hehe, give me some time))

[jeremypw]

The nearest I have is a 6.8GB .mkv file. mediainfo indicated the video codec ID was V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC . Resolution 1920 x 1080. Audio format AC-3

This played at the expected speed on an i5 laptop with 8GB memory using the master version of Videos. OS is on SSD, video is on internal HD.

Please give more information about the machine specs and the version of the OS and Videos you are using.

[DanilChechkov]

CPU: AMD A9-9420 2 cores GPU: AMD Radeon R5 m400 series RAM: 8GB That's my laptop. About video: Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) Resolution: 1920x960 FPS: 25 Audio codec: A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52 ) Os now at SSD, video at HDD connected with USB 3.0

[DanilChechkov]

Uploading video at GDrive. First one - playing with video, second with vlc, hope you will see freezes and difference between same part of video

[DanilChechkov]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vzjp-9QMoBBy65n2N2Hosr5Dkm8XDXrm/view?usp=drivesdk

Video is here. I’m sorry to make u wait, hope that will make sense

[DanilChechkov]

Oh elementary OS version is 5.1.4 Hera

[Cjnator38]

Same thing happens with me. This also causes the display to flicker and the entire OS to lock up. GPU: 4GB AMD Radeon R7 360 CPU: Intel Pentium G3420 @ 3.2 GHz

[Cjnator38]

I've tested VLC with the same video I have used and it worked flawlessly

[jeremypw]

I recently found that a different bug with Videos was related to Bionic GStreamer and the Bionic Intel graphics driver. The bug did not occur on my machine with NVidia graphics (or in player that did not use GStreamer). The exact cause has not been found but it was solved by updating the driver to the latest version.

[jeremypw]

I suspect that video acceleration is not working for your setup. Make sure you the have va-driver-all and vdpau-driver-all packages installed to make sure that you have the acceleration drivers available in Bionic. If the problem is with GStreamer compatibility for your particular cards, you may have to wait for the next release of of elementary, with more up to date drivers and libraries, unless you can install them yourselves :-(

VLC does not use GStreamer, I believe, so may have better compatibility.

[Cjnator38]

Well, I'll just continue using VLC until this gets fixed.

[danirabbit]

Closing since this is related to a very old version with a different codec situation and this has definitely been resolved