Tip: openSUSE 12.2 VLC (2.0.6-123.2) codec problem mp4v mpga h264 mp4a

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I was this problem with VLC (2.0.6-123.2 Packman Repository) to play AVI and MP4 files containing codecs h264 mpga mp4v mp4a:

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format “mp4v”. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format “mpga”. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format “h264”. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format “mp4a”. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

Solution:
I installed the package vlc-codecs (2.0.6-123.2).

Packman repository YAST2:

http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.2/Essentials/

RPM files:

openSUSE 12.2 - 32 bits

http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.2/Essentials/i586/

openSUSE 12.2 - 64 bits

http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.2/Essentials/x86_64/

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This split-up of VLC including an extra codec package is fairly recent and puzzled me also when it happened.

Nice to have an explicit post about it.

Cheers,
Olav

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Me too, I couldn’t figure out why my VLC all of a sudden wouldn’t play anything. Thanks a lot for this post.

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You need to read the Announcements Forum more often.

VLC users please note

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Aha, I suppose I should pay more attention to the announcements too.