Linux User: When playing clips, only seeing a black screen.

I just installed Davinci Resolve on my Ubuntu computer, everything opens perfectly, but when I try to play a clip I get no video or audio. It's either just blank like this:

https://i.postimg.cc/kXNdq0Kp/blank0.png

Or a black screen like so:

https://i.postimg.cc/x1tDbLsG/blank1.png

As for the m4v video I'm using:

Container: Quicktime
Dimensions: 1280x720
Codec: H.264 (High Profile)
Frame rate: 60.0
Bit rate: 825 kbps

I've got the most recent Nvidia drivers apparently, my os is up to date. Not sure what could be going wrong. Would anybody have any ideas? I'll share my computer specs below just in case it helps. Thanks in advance!

Davinci Resolve: 17.1 Build 24

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
GNOME Version: 3.36.8
Window System: X11
Memory: 16GB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz × 12
Graphics: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti]
NVIDIA Driver Version: 460.39
NVIDIA CUDA Version: 11.2

[Shrinivas Ramani]

Hi

Please note that H.264 decoding in CentOS requires DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Link to supported codecs document

Regards
Shrinivas

Hi

Please note that H.264 decoding in CentOS requires DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Regards
Shrinivas

Thank you, this helped and now I'm able to edit my clips. For those of you running into the same issue, I ran the following command line for each clip that didn't work:

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ffmpeg -i raw_footage.mp4 -vcodec mjpeg -q:v 2 -acodec pcm_s16be -q:a 0 -f mov footage_mjpeg.mov

This worked nicely for me. I'm probably going to write a bash script that automates this process. Also make sure you got ffmpeg installed. If anybody has better suggestions feel free to share them.