[Linux - AUR]All video file are imported as Audio-only media

(Maybe a "Work as intended"-situation since i am pretty new to DaVinci environment)

All my imported video files (x264 .mp4 & .mov) are shown in the editor as Audio Files:


I am using Manjaro 17-1-12 and used the AUR packagewith
the original .zip from the official website (tried to uninstall&reinstall, but it didn't fixe the issue).

Any idea?

I had to pick a OpenCL driver source during the installation process, set it OpenCL-nvidia because i own a gtx1060, dunno if it's related or not.

So it appears that the import failed because the h264 codec,

As shown in the /opt/resolve/logs/LogArchive/rollinlogs.txt

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[0x7ff3859a9700] | IO                   | ERROR | 2018-09-25 14:11:10,033 | Codec (avc1) not Found in Repository

According to other topics, it's because there is no h264 support on Linux version (except if you buy the studio version).

If that a license related issue, i hope that the dev team will give a chance to a x264 support, because right now that's a major drawback for casual user.

Anyway as shown as a previous thread you can avoid the x264 lack by converting your sources in some sort-of loss-less compression really quick with dnxhr via ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i <input> -c:v dnxhd -profile dnxhr_lb -c:a pcm_s16le <output>.mov
(thanks Lance Braud for the command)

I will stop using DaVinci for now (going back to shotcut+natron) because i am getting segfault error above that when i try to import those files, but i really hope that the dev team will keep improving the linux support because this software looks pretty neat.