help fixing a broken install

[fmartins]

Hi,
I have vlc 0.9.9a in ubuntu 9.04 and when I go to this radio stream http://www.rfm.pt/live/streamnew_rfm.asx it complains of missing wma2 codec. However I have a similar install in another PC which works well. I have also tried vlc 1... from the PPA but it's the same.

I suspect it was an install of openshot that broke codecs installation but after removal it's the same. So I was wondering which libraries are below vlc that I could reinstall. What elese could I do to pinpoint/fix this problem?

TIA,
Fernando

[xtophe]

reinstall libavcodec libavutil libavformat libswscale and libpostproc

[fmartins]

Thanks for the help. Reinstalling those did not fix the problem. However I noticed that libavutil is installed twice:

- libavutil-unstripped-50
- libavutil-unstripped-49

whereas in the other computer only -49 is installed. So I wonder whether -50 is incompatible with vlc.

When I try to remove -50, synaptic asks for removal of a lot of files, including vlc. I'm not happy to do since I might mess up even more with the system.

What would you advice to do?

[xtophe]

does vlc -vvv --no-plugins-cache --list |grep avcodec produces any warning (in yellow) ? Does it lists avcodec ?

[fmartins]

no, I get (in green)

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avcodec FFmpeg audio/video decoder avcodec FFmpeg audio/video encoder avcodec FFmpeg deinterlace video filter

I ran vlc -v 2 from the command line with the stream and I got (tail of it):

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[00000498] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (49628) [00000498] main audio output warning: buffer is 49628 late, triggering upsampling [00000498] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (47422) [00000498] main audio output warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling [00000498] main audio output warning: buffer is 97049 late, triggering upsampling [00000498] message audio output warning: message queue overflowed [00000498] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (45845) [00000498] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (139878), dropping buffer [00000511] main demux warning: no access_demux module matched "http" [00000516] main demux warning: no access_demux module matched "mms" [00000517] main access warning: connection timed out [00000517] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp) [00000517] main access warning: connection timed out [00000517] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp) [00000517] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server [00000517] access_mms access error: cannot read data 2 [00000519] asf stream warning: unknown asf object (not loaded) [00000519] asf stream warning: unknown asf object (not loaded) [00000521] avcodec decoder warning: Physical channel configuration not set : guessing [00000521] avcodec decoder error: cannot open codec (Windows Media Audio 2) [00000521] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `wma2'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. [00000517] access_mms access warning: unimplemented query in control

[fmartins]

Hi,

I was told in the ubuntu forum that indeed openshot has borked ffmpeg libraries. I'll try the solution out and report back.

Indeed it works, see thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1281367

Thanks for your help!