Unplayable downloaded videos - How to enable/add "X11" video output mode, or other suggestions?
Posted: 06 Dec 2018 20:10
Some videos from a place I often download videos from, always reliable in the past, has in the last few months been consistently resulting in videos that will not play with VLC or any other player. Furthermore the "Icons" in Windows explorer won't show a preview image, just the VLC logo.
Properties in Windows Expolorer says it is a video and shows the correct length and size so at least that much of the header info is intact.
In some players the time progresses but the video is black & silent, so that part of the metadata about the videos is ostensibly valid.
Googling possible solutions many pages say to set the video output handler to "X11" or I believe "XMB" or "Xvideo" but none of those options show up for me.
>>> Is there a way to enable any such modes, or a package for VLC to install, or something missing from my system?
Maybe I am missing a codec but I don't know how to see what codec it uses and how to get it for my Windows 10 64-bit system.
Properties in Windows Expolorer says it is a video and shows the correct length and size so at least that much of the header info is intact.
In some players the time progresses but the video is black & silent, so that part of the metadata about the videos is ostensibly valid.
Googling possible solutions many pages say to set the video output handler to "X11" or I believe "XMB" or "Xvideo" but none of those options show up for me.
>>> Is there a way to enable any such modes, or a package for VLC to install, or something missing from my system?
Maybe I am missing a codec but I don't know how to see what codec it uses and how to get it for my Windows 10 64-bit system.
