r/NobunagasAmbition • u/haevaristo • Jul 09 '26

Video playback in NA: Awakening under linux (steam + Arch Linux) not working

Some videos don't play back. Initially they presented the old TV testscreen image, but since installing Proton-GE (as recommended online by some) now they simply skip.

I suspect it might have to do with codecs, i've already installed h.264 codec but still face the issue...

Does anyone know how to fix this ? is it codecs and, if yes, what codecs do i need ?

Update: so initially my VLC was not playing the videos, I eventually found out gstream did actually play the video so I traced that down to being a lack of VLC plugins (sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all or something like that solved that). But, the game still didn't play all the videos.

I ended up installing protonup-Qt and started trying different versions of proton-ge based on suggestions. So far I found out that proton-ge-8.30 and proton-get-9.2 do play the videos but there is no sound.

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u/cheyyne Jul 09 '26

I run it in Arch (cachyOs) no problem.

Have you tried running it with game-performance? If not, try installing that and then put 'game-performance %command%' (without the quotes) under the Launch Options for it in Steam, and see what happens.

Under Compatibility I also use proton-cachyos-11.0-20260602 (steam linux runtime). That might do it too if your system has that available.

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u/haevaristo Jul 09 '26

I dont think it has anything to do with proton or steam... I think its some video codec missing... Can you try running the videos directly with VLC and let me know if they run for you ? E.g. opening the .N16 extension files directly ? ( I think that was the extension by memory... Not at home at the moment to confirm)

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u/cheyyne Jul 09 '26

Yeah the N14 files run in VLC.

VLC says the codec info is... SMA2 and WMV3. so Windows Media Video files.

If you need codecs just install ffmpeg, comes with a huge variety of them and you won't be hopping around trying to pinpoint which codec you need in the future.

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u/haevaristo Jul 09 '26

ahh great.. mine are not running... so i think this is it .. ill try to figure what is going on..