Celluloid not opening certain files [SOLVED]

[abarreiros]

Just yesterday I was using celluloid normally to reproduce any kind of videos. Today I noticed that I'm not able to reproduce some videos anymore, specially high quality ones, only very low quality ones, with .avi extension mostly. Is it possible that some package update just broke my celluloid installation somehow? If not, I'm open to try some ideas, I really like celluloid and I would like to keep it as my main video player. Thanks in advance

[DOGGO_Woo]

Just yesterday I was using celluloid normally to reproduce any kind of videos. Today I noticed that I'm not able to reproduce some videos anymore, specially high quality ones, only very low quality ones, with .avi extension mostly. Is it possible that some package update just broke my celluloid installation somehow?

What Linux Mint version are you running? On MATE, there have been no updates to celluloid according to Update Manager.

[abarreiros]

I'm using 20.3 Cinnamon

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Distributor ID:	Linuxmint
Description:	Linux Mint 20.3
Release:	20.3
Codename:	una

I did not installed any update manually, however I've been installing and compiling some libraries, openCV and some other, maybe mpv itself or celluloid depend on libraries I messed up with.

[abarreiros]

Somehow in miscellaneous preferences there was a mpv extra option, it was setted up like this, (I didn't changed ever, seems like a default value):

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hwdec=true

It seems that configuration don't work for me, so I investigated a little more here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mpv and I finally I left my extra options like this:

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hwdec=auto-copy, hwdec-codecs=all

It also works perfectly fine if I just leave it blank, probably you'll not use hardware decoding though.

[Hoser Rob]

Beieve it or not, the mpv devs recommend turning OFF hardware decoding. You get better compatibility, and the truth is that you only really needed it 20 years ago.