Cannot play mkv or mp4 videos

[aspizu]

What Happened?

video is blank audio is fine cant play any videos i have installed ubuntu-restricted-packages

Steps to Reproduce

play video

Expected Behavior

video should play

OS Version

6.x (Odin)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

[theoteno]

Is it the flatpak version, maybe? That might help a bit, but I didn't used the default video player on Elementary that much . . .

[aspizu]

the one which comes with odin

[theoteno]

It's probably flatpak, but I don't know what breaked the video playback. (drivers, etc.)

I'd recommend to build videos2, or Cinema(playmyvideos) from source code: it's actually well documented how to do it, both players are written in Vala & look very similar designwise.

Maybe even Celluloid would look great in elementary theme, and you don't need to compile & build that app.