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ashkanlaei

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Registered: 2022-10-05

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] VLC Unidentified codec error

Yesterday, I did an update with pacman -Syu and VLC media player no longer displays subtitles.
When the subtitle is selected, an "Unidentified codec" error is displayed with the following content.

Unidentified codec:
VLC could not identify the audio or video codec

This is the output when I run vlc from terminal:

$ vlc movie.mkv
VLC media player 3.0.17.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
[0000560187a01550] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
[00007f8260d81310] main decoder error: could not identify codec
[00007f824c007410] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v4.208.0 (API v208)
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[00007f824c007410] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
[00007f8260c244e0] avcodec decoder: Using Mesa Gallium driver 22.1.7 for AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics (raven2, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.47, 5.19.12-arch1-1) for hardware decoding

Last edited by ashkanlaei (2022-10-05 10:32:28)

astralc

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Registered: 2022-09-17

Posts: 126

Re: [SOLVED] VLC Unidentified codec error

I also encounter it. from looking at verbose (and bit of searching) it seam as same issue as:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2060212

downgrading libebml did solve it for me.

ashkanlaei

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Registered: 2022-10-05

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] VLC Unidentified codec error

I also encounter it. from looking at verbose (and bit of searching) it seam as same issue as:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2060212

downgrading libebml did solve it for me.

Thank you very much. Downgrading solved the issue.

Gabachin

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Registered: 2022-05-06

Posts: 105

Re: [SOLVED] VLC Unidentified codec error

Has the bug been fixed yet?