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w1ntermute

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Registered: 2009-06-28

Posts: 146

VLC unable to play many videos

Pretty much any video I try gives me an error such as:

VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264".

Here's the CLI output:

VLC media player 1.1.9 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
 m_el[mi_level] == NULL
 arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
[0x19d06e0] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0x7fe1d6f3eeb0)
[0x19d06e0] signals interface error:  /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]
Blocked: call to setenv("ORBIT_SOCKETDIR", "/tmp/orbit-samir", 1)
Warning: call to srand(1303220158)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:22222): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
 m_el[mi_level] == NULL
 arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
[0x1bd2c80] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `h264'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

I have extra/x264 installed.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: VLC unable to play many videos

you don't have ffmpeg from extra

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