Anyone having trouble with VLC?
Before I upgraded from 12.3, VLC was fine. Now any video I play (mkv, mp4, mpg, avi) I get a similar error message:
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.
I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but that didn’t help.
Running VLC from shell gives me this:
VLC media player 2.1.0 Rincewind (revision 2.1.0-0-gedd8835)
[0x20d56f8] main libvlc warning: This doesn’t look like a valid plugins cache
[0x21092a8] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x20d56f8] main libvlc error: interface “globalhotkeys,none” initialization failed
[0x20d56f8] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use ‘cvlc’ to use vlc without interface.
Loaded services file OK.
[0x2a3f0e8] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc mp4v'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. [0x2a3f0e8] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc mpga’. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
I looked for VLC codecs, but could not find any in the 13.1 repos.
Any ideas?
They are not included for legal reasons. Just like ffmpeg, MPlayer, libxine2-codecs, and so on.
You would have to install them from the Packman repo, but that is not available yet for 13.1.
On Sun 03 Nov 2013 01:06:01 PM CST, HuaiDan wrote:
Anyone having trouble with VLC?
Before I upgraded from 12.3, VLC was fine. Now any video I play (mkv,
mp4, mpg, avi) I get a similar error message:
> 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.
>
>
>
I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but that didn’t help.
Running VLC from shell gives me this:
> VLC media player 2.1.0 Rincewind (revision 2.1.0-0-gedd8835)
> [0x20d56f8] main libvlc warning: This doesn’t look like a valid
> plugins cache
> [0x21092a8] main interface error: no suitable interface module
> [0x20d56f8] main libvlc error: interface “globalhotkeys,none”
> initialization failed
> [0x20d56f8] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
> ‘cvlc’ to use vlc without interface.
>
>
> Loaded services file OK.
>
>
> [0x2a3f0e8] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc
> `mp4v’. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
[0x2a3f0e8] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc
`mpga’. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
>
>
I looked for VLC codecs, but could not find any in the 13.1 repos.
Any ideas?
l
Hi
Since the packman repos for 13.1 are not available yet, your running
the 12.3 version of vlc…
Your probably running the oss version of VLC?
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I am running opensuse 13.1 rc2 64 bit and have vlc running fine. I just installed vlc using the packman (12.3) rpm’s. Although I did have to use libmatroska and libebml from the 12.3 oss repo (13.1 has updated versions of these libs).
It is a little bit more complicated with 13.1 than before - as 13.1 includes oss versions of vlc (obviously without the codec rpm) but just replace these with the packman versions.
Well, it could suffice to only install vlc-codecs from Packman and keep the other vlc packages from the oss repo, since they are the same anyway ATM. I haven’t tried that yet, though. (and most likely you wouldn’t get updates then, 2.1.1 f.e. when released)
Tried that (I had to append the alias “VLC” to the zypper ar command), but VLC wouldn’t even start.
dth2
I am running opensuse 13.1 rc2 64 bit and have vlc running fine. I just installed vlc using the packman (12.3) rpm’s. Although I did have to use libmatroska and libebml from the 12.3 oss repo (13.1 has updated versions of these libs).
It is a little bit more complicated with 13.1 than before - as 13.1 includes oss versions of vlc (obviously without the codec rpm) but just replace these with the packman versions.
That got it working for me. I’ll just have to remember to remove the 12.3 repos and reinstall when packman 13.1 comes online. Thanks!
The missing alias in the first line was already mentioned.
Then, if vlc is already installed from the OSS repo, “zypper in VLC” won’t do anything, you would have to provide the “-f” option.
Finally, since vlc consists of more than one package, you would end up with a mixture of packages between the VLC and the standard OSS repo (that line only installs vlc, not libvlc and so on), which might not work.
And also there’s no guarantee that vlc will be taken from the VLC repo, that would depend on the version numbers which don’t necessarily have to be higher in the VLC repo.
Btw, the second line is not necessary since auto-refresh is turned on by default.
I would therefore recommend this way:
sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/13.1 VLC
sudo zypper in -f --from VLC vlc vlc-noX vlc-codecs vlc-qt vlc-noX-lang vlc-gnome libvlc5 libvlccore7
Or use YaST->Software Management, search for “vlc” and switch all packages to the VLC repo’s versions (click on the “Versions” tab below the package list).
Please, DON’T DO THAT!
Adding both the Packman and VLC repo to your system, WILL BREAK your multimedia sooner or later! They contain the same packages in different versions.
Just add Packman, as described in step 1, and install “vlc-codecs” from there (the other vlc packages should then be switched to the Packman versions automatically).
And, you could also add the full Packman repo (instead of Essentials and Multimedia, the latter is not needed for VLC btw.):
sudo zypper ar http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_13.1/ packman
Or use YaST->Software Repositories->Add->Community Repositories.
I have the same problem with VLC 2.1.0 on Tumbleweed. I am always really cautious about adding any repos not specifically TW. Which of the above solutions are “Tumbleweed safe”?
On 2014-02-13 21:36, bonesTdog wrote:
> I have the same problem with VLC 2.1.0 on Tumbleweed. I am always really
> cautious about adding any repos not specifically TW. Which of the above
> solutions are “Tumbleweed safe”?
Oh nice, I was so intelligent to do everything from first post to the last. Now VLC doesnt work as before. Is there anything new out how to get it running?
I have installed all pacman things mentioned in this whole thread, dont know how to uninstall… no idea at all…
is there an easy way to get rid of the pacman things i dont need and install VLC Properly? Im wondering why still the official download for Suse 13.1 on the VLC Homepage doesnt work. Why does it always do what it has to do on windows and why is linux even the dummy versions so complicated? Questions…
> is there an easy way to get rid of the pacman things i dont need and
> install VLC Properly? Im wondering why still the official download for
> Suse 13.1 on the VLC Homepage doesnt work. Why does it always do what it
> has to do on windows and why is linux even the dummy versions so
> complicated? Questions…
If you have a problem with 13.1, as it is no longer a Beta version, you
should not ask in the Beta forum but in the standard one.
You should start by reading the stickies in the multimedia forum here.
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On 2014-04-19 03:56, estephanz wrote:
>
> This fixed the whole thing for me (sure after installing VLC from
> videolan.org):
>
> sudo zypper in vlc-codecs
>
> It seems that this step is no longer automatic like it used to be with
> the new VLC versions.
I hope that you are aware that the information in this thread applied to
13.1 when it was still BETA, while now 13.1 is STABLE - so it no longer
applies.
Just in case that you haven’t noticed that this is the Beta forum, and
that the current Beta is now 13.2
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Thanks to all for this thread related to VLC media player. In addition, the explanation of the reasons for not mixing Packman Essentials and Multimedia and VLC. I have been using the
VLC repository method, as described above, and it has worked well. Thanks again!
