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I had the same problem as everyone else here and the above worked for me. Thank you, lxlesig!

Sorry to be so dumb, but I'm new to linux and the package manager is a complete mystery to me. I don't know which package I've got that's causing trouble and I don't know how to replace it. If I remove any codec and then update it just installs the same thing again. Anyway, I followed the post in th...

I auto-updated everything (ie sudo apt-get autoupdate ) last night and since then VLC will play no video. It always gives me some variation of this error: Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) It will play sound, but no video. I've tried ...