Video Playback on Asus X205T
 

I installed MX Linux on an ASUS X205T ebook in order to make it useful again. The installation went well but I am unable to play a video. I have tried Firefox and Falcon using youtube and vimeo. The sites load but when I click on a video the spinning circle never stops. There also appears to be no sound. I have ran all of the updates that were available. Is there something else I need to install?

did you check your network connection? did you check if you can play a local video?

Video Playback on Asus X205T
 

The connection is fine. Websites all open. I used the same USB installer on a similar ASUS T100 and everything works - sound video etc. So I think I'm missing some drivers on the the X205T but I don't know what.

in that case you need to check the logs, you will definitely find something relevant (for example intel graphic driver related)

Update - when I did the test with the T100, I was running off the USB. I installed to the hard drive and now I have the same situation as the X205T. Spinning circle and no sound.

I don't know how to check the logs. Could you elaborate or direct me to an explanation. Thanks

One more thing. I thought I would try a different linux distribution - lubuntu - to see if the problems would go away. Made a UEFI bootable USB with Rufus using a 32bit version, but the computer won't boot from the usb. Just keeps going back to the installed version even though I have changed the boot order in BIOS. Any ideas?

Linux logs just about everything and all the logs are stored in /var/log. Some distros require you to use sudo to read them. The main one is /var/log/messages which contains messages from both the kernel and various daemons (background processes). Xorg.0.log is the one to check for possible videocard problems.

Possibly...you don't say what site(s) you're playing videos from, or if you've tried local media with a media player (like mplayer or VLC) and what the results were there. Step 5 here:
https://averagelinuxuser.com/after-i...install-codecs

You may just need the multimedia codecs.

Sorry, I was busy and didn't get back to this project. I am trying to play YouTube videos. I installed the MX Codex but that doesn't help. I downloaded a sample MP4 video and it will play on VLC. When I was running off the USB before installing to the hard drive, You tube would play with sound so it is within the capabilities of the computer.

Read debian wiki. You need i965-va-driver. Then try thorium browser appimage. That browser has everything switched on.

I tried installing several versions of the i965 driver 64amd and i386. I get unmet dependencies error. Also installed snap to be able to download thorium browser. Snap seemed to install but it doesn't see core or any package. I would try a different linux distribution but when usb boot is set in bios, I can't get it to boot from a usb. Just boots back into MX.

Am I missing something? That was quoted.

I am trying to [lay you tube videos. The site opens normally with all of the previews of the videos showing as normal. When I click on one it opens but just has the spinning circle over it and it never stops playing. The computer is capable of playing them because it worked when I was running off the USB before I installed MX.

It never starts playing - sorry typo.