vlc won't play mp4v and other codecs - need fix testing

philm · 2010-09-11 04:31:02

Hi community,

during the 0.2.1 tests we found some bugs. vlc reported some like:

main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `mp4v'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

Updated pkgs:

libvpx libva x264 ffmpeg mplayer vlc

I updated in platform-i686, platform-testing-i686 and platfrom-x86_64 new pkgs and tested them all on my local machine. Please retest on yours and report back if I fixed that problem. SMplayer should work with mplayer now.

manutortosa · 2010-09-11 10:16:53

Rebuilding platform-testing-x86_64 atm..

redsteakraw · 2010-09-12 02:57:34

I just updated libva and now I have the same problem. I am on the i686 platform running chakra phoix.

I get this message:

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

I have an intel atom n450 with a broadcom crystal hd decoding chip (I hear there is a libva backend). I know that vlc uses libva now but I don't know whiy I can't see any videos. I can hear the audio track but the video doesn't play. xine works fine, mplayer it is the reverse I get the video but no sound. I deleted the .vlc folder configs so it is running on the defaults but it didn't change a thing. This is all I can tell you for now.

my platform is i686

my vlc version is platform-testing/vlc 1.1.4-2 [installed]

my libva version is platform-testing/libva 1.0.4-1 [installed]

Gallaecio · 2010-09-12 09:56:06

redsteakraw wrote:

I am on the i686 platform running chakra phoix.

For future reference, know you are in Ashoc, future Chakra 0.3 (development branch).

philm · 2010-09-13 21:15:46

Just tested my builds in i686 with http://durian.blender.org/download/

vlc 1.0.4-1 + x264 20100826-1 platform-stable-i686

vlc-1.0.4-2 + x264 20100826-1 platform-testing-i686

Post me the codec infos. Mplayer works here too.

redsteakraw · 2010-09-14 06:46:55

I am on i686 Ashoc

did you make a new package, because my vlc still doesn't work. A correction on the mplayer it works smplayer was set to use pulse audio which doesn't work, so when switched to alsa it works again.

here is a screenshot of sintel mp4 720. There only shows a image and audio, no video.

This is the error :

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

philm · 2010-09-14 07:17:25

I switched to the latest trunk-version we offer in our testing-repositories. And I reinstalled all my pkgs I build:

[philm@phils-desktop ~]$ sudo pacman -Sy libvpx libva x264 ffmpeg mplayer vlc
Password: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core-testing is up to date
 desktop-testing is up to date
 platform-testing is up to date
 apps-unstable is up to date
 apps-testing is up to date
warning: libvpx-0.9.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: libva-1.0.4-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: x264-20100826-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: ffmpeg-24953-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: mplayer-32025-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: vlc-1.1.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (6): libvpx-0.9.2-1  libva-1.0.4-1  x264-20100826-1  ffmpeg-24953-1  mplayer-32025-2  vlc-1.1.4-2

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   75.56 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
checking package integrity...
(6/6) checking for file conflicts                                                          [####################################################] 100%
(1/6) upgrading libvpx                                                                     [####################################################] 100%
(2/6) upgrading libva                                                                      [####################################################] 100%
(3/6) upgrading x264                                                                       [####################################################] 100%
(4/6) upgrading ffmpeg                                                                     [####################################################] 100%
(5/6) upgrading mplayer                                                                    [####################################################] 100%
(6/6) upgrading vlc                                                                        [####################################################] 100%
[philm@phils-desktop ~]$

After that I started the same file as you did:

I don't find any issues with that. MPlayer got rebuild without pulse btw. Try to delete the cached files and reinstall the whole set.

redsteakraw · 2010-09-14 17:00:18

When I first did that it worked but the sound didn'd work so I had to do a pacman -Sy alsa-lib and do a reboot after that both sound and video works.

philm · 2010-09-14 20:26:28

K. I tested it on 5 chakra-0.2.1 installs and 2 ashoc-trunk installs. Worked on all machines. Don't know what happend on your side. Glad to hear you have now Video and Audio again.

redsteakraw · 2010-09-14 21:00:59

not everything is working now my flash has no sounds

abveritas · 2010-09-14 21:29:26

Which flash version do you have? 10.0.45 (old) or 10.0.82?
Another thing to try is use the chrome-dev bundle, flash is build in into chrome i686, see if that resolves this issue.

Gallaecio · 2010-09-14 22:20:07

When I was in Arch I moved to jack because of something like that. But if you can find another solution, good

redsteakraw · 2010-09-14 22:43:18

flashproblem is fixed pulseaudio-alsa is needed for flash to be install, also kmix needs to have the volume controls unmuted under the pulseaudio-alsa volume control. Here are the packages

platform-testing/pulseaudio 0.9.21-2 [installed]
    A networked sound server
platform-testing/pulseaudio-alsa 1-1 [installed]
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio

platform-testing/flashplugin 10.1.82.76-1 [installed]
    Adobe Flash Player

platform-testing/alsa-lib 1.0.23-1 [installed]
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
platform-testing/alsa-oss 1.0.17-1 [installed]
    OSS compatibility library
platform-testing/alsa-plugins 1.0.23-1 [installed]
    Extra alsa plugins
platform-testing/alsa-utils 1.0.23-2 [installed]
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
platform-testing/pulseaudio-alsa 1-1 [installed]
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio

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vlc won't play mp4v and other codecs - need fix testing

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