VLC doesn't like .mp4

paul2lv · 2006-01-06 06:45:15

VLC doesn't play the audio in some .mp4 videos I have. At first, I thought ffmpeg was compiled without support for faac/faad, but the PKGBUILD says it was. VLC gives me this when I play a file:

VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus
[00000304] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `mp4a'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

The video plays fine in xine.
BTW, running noodle, latest updates, no testing.
Please help, Thanks.

Zanton · 2006-01-06 11:18:04

Same for me, but the container is mkv.
I also compiled vlc included faad2 library but it doesn't change anything. Need help too

allucid · 2006-02-09 06:48:50

I can't get this to work, either. Is anyone able to play mp4 audio with vlc? I have every aac/mp4 related plugin and library installed.

smoon · 2006-02-09 11:16:19

Same problem here. But I use mplayer most of the time which plays AAC Audio just fine, so I doesn't really care.

paul2lv · 2006-02-09 18:40:35

After reading through some of the VLC forums, it would appear this is an upstream problem that VLC is trying to fix. For now, I'm stuck using mplayer.

neocephas · 2006-02-18 20:13:47

Using ABS, I recompiled vlc-0.8.4a with the additional --enable-faad --enable-faac configuration flags and now I can watch my mp4s. Hope that helps. (I added 'faad2' 'faac' to the depends list)

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#1 2006-01-06 06:45:15

VLC doesn't like .mp4

#2 2006-01-06 11:18:04

Re: VLC doesn't like .mp4

#3 2006-02-09 06:48:50

Re: VLC doesn't like .mp4

#4 2006-02-09 11:16:19

Re: VLC doesn't like .mp4

#5 2006-02-09 18:40:35

Re: VLC doesn't like .mp4

#6 2006-02-18 20:13:47

Re: VLC doesn't like .mp4

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