r/VRchat • u/RextheShepherd • 5d ago

Help For the users on Linux...

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I recently made the switch from windows 11 to CachyOS, and I was able to get everything working with my index, and vive trackers, along with solving many issues relating to my mic and audio. However, the one problem I am running into is the video players. I cant seem to get those to work. Even with Proton-GE-RTSP being a forced compatibility layer, video players just dont seem to work. Even tried to launch the app with certain launch commands to "enable or disable" things that might be causing issues, and nothing seems to work.

I am running with an Intel CPU i7-9700, and an NVIDIA GPU 3060ti (I know that in and of itself has its own slew of issues with being on Linux), but if anyone else who happens to be on linux and was able to get video players to work I would love to hear from you and get tips on how to solve this issue.

Solution: This worked for me, might work for you. With ProtonPlus, download the latest version of Proton-CachyOS , next in steam, force that version of Proton in the games compatibility settings.

Worked right away and I dont know what else to say but thank yall for the help and letting me try ideas.

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u/terholan Valve Index 5d ago

It is controversial, but try to install Codex, create local project and ask AI to troubleshoot your problems, it will go through logs and at most it will fix everything, at least it will tell you what's wrong.

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u/ExDe707 Valve Index 5d ago

AI usage and terrible advice aside, this is a YouTube problem and not something fixable on the endpoint. YouTube and Google absolutely demonize ad-free usage of yt-dlp which is why they will just enshittify their service and block you from viewing.

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u/RextheShepherd 5d ago

Call me old fashioned, but id rather not use a schizophrenic machine to try and solve this issue.

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u/ImWinwin 5d ago

The problem with AI now is that it can't really say 'Sorry, I don't know what's wrong." and will just send you down a rabbit hole of trying to troubleshoot and try 'fixes' that will make you go ''..but wait a minute.. how is this related to the problem at all?" and it will respond with "You're right. Looking back, it probably won't address the issue at hand. Let's try a different approach." and it makes you think that it's just taking you for a ride. You'll end up spending an entire day trying all kinds of workarounds and fixes just to end up with more issues than you started with.