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Hi there,

I have just upgrade my VLC to 2.1.1 the other day and for some reason, the FluidSynth is missing from audio codec. When I try to play a midi file with VLC 2.1.1, the following error message will pop up on my screen:
No suitable decoder module
VLC does not support the audio or video format "MIDI". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

Am I missing something or this is intentional?

Any help would be appreciated.

Any help?

Did you install a MIDI font file and gave it's name to VLC's MIDI decoder?

I have the same problem on Windows 7.
There apparently is no MIDI decoder anymore
It was there before I updated.

Did you install a MIDI font file and gave it's name to VLC's MIDI decoder?

I used to specify the sound font file under Input/Codecs -> Audio Codecs -> FluidSynth before the upgrade to 2.1.1. But now the FluidSynth codec is gone from the Audio Codecs node... Am I missing something??

any help??

Wish to add my disappointment that fluidsynth is missing. Had to downgrade to v2.0.9 to use MIDI.

Hello, apparently, FluidSynth got lost in the compilation process for the last update. Be assured that it will be back in 2.1.2 very soon!

Hello, apparently, FluidSynth got lost in the compilation process for the last update. Be assured that it will be back in 2.1.2 very soon!

No, it won't. I just updated to 2.1.2 and had to regress to 2.0.8 because there was no way to have 2.1.2 see the MIDI soundfonts.
I hope they reconsider and re-integrate this capability into the program, since lacking it is a major drawback in such a versatile player.

Just wanted to update this. I'm on VLC 2.1.5 on Windows and there is still no FluidSynth codec under Audio Codecs. This is disappointing...

Please restore the FluidSynth codec option!

I probably should mention this since you all so desperately want FluidSynth MIDI support in your copies of VLC. The nightly builds of both the 2.2.0 and 3.0.0 series do have the FluidSynth codec restored. I happily use the latest 3.0.0 series nightly and have experienced little or no issues depending upon the build.

Though, getting the necessary soundfont for FluidSynth was mildly irritating. Having to download the soundfont from the Debian website, and find something to extract it from the *.deb file was annoying. I use a Mac, not a PC running Linux.

The following information is provided for those who don't know, feel free to ignore:
The nightly builds of VLC can be found here: http://nightlies.videolan.org/
The soundfont is here (you'll need something like "The Unarchiver" to get a usable *.SF2 soundfont): https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all ... m/download

fluidsynth went missing again (at least since 2.2.0-rc2), but I brought it up on IRC so it might get resolved sometime soon (they'll try again for rc3)--might have been from issues building glib.