VLC on MAC does not play vo3+

[tobtobitob]

I got a couple of Video Files encoded using Davideo and Ogg-Vorbis Codec, but it seems that they do not play with VLC altough the codec is listed in the compatitbility matrix.
The error message I get is: main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `vo3+'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

[Ephesus]

There is a good chance that it's not supported yet, it's ogg vorbis audio if memory serves.

[Guest]

Known issue, but the bug entry indicates that "vo3+" was just a placeholder so we could recognize these files if we ever got samples. So... do we have any samples?

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/224

[fugue]

As of this writing (Nov. 12, 2007), it's not fixed yet. You need to extract the ogg audio, convert it to mp3, and then combinte it with the audioless version of the video to make it playable on VLC.

1. Get the following apps:
D-Vision 3 http://www.objectifmac.com/dvision.php
Audion3 http://www.panic.com/audion/d/Audion%203.0.2.dmg

2. Open D-Vision 3, click the big "Tools" button. Go through "Re-encoding avi/mpg," "Copy/Extract" and perform "Extraction of an audio track." Format should be set to "direct stream." Then D-Vision 3 will produce an audio file with an extension "???" Change the extension to ogg. Perform "Extraction of the video track" also to create an audioless avi file.

3. Open Audion3, and perform "Encode Item" to convert the ogg audio file to mp3.

4. Perform "Tools" / "Add audio track" in D-Vision to combine the converted mp3 audio file and the audioless avi file.

It's weird that you can play the ogg audio file on VLC just fine, but not when combined with avi video.