"Unidentified codec" after upgrading to VLC 3.0.2-1+b1
Posted: 08 May 2018 21:52
So, I wanted the infamous play/pause on middle button functionality ...
Before installing the plugin, however, I updated.
Now I get "Unidentified codec: VLC could not identify the audio or video codec".
I don't see how updating should in any way lead to this error.
I already deleted the plugin with:
My system is:
These packages were upgraded:
P.S.: The forum software seems bugged ... line breaks inside code statements are deleted! That's why it is in quotes. I'm beginning to loose my cool. Just wanted to watch a nice movie and in trying to solve one usability bug, I stumbled upon four others
Before installing the plugin, however, I updated.
Now I get "Unidentified codec: VLC could not identify the audio or video codec".
I don't see how updating should in any way lead to this error.
I already deleted the plugin with:
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sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/video_filter/libpause_click_plugin.soFor reasons regarding the damn NVIDIA driver I can't upgrade the linux kernel, but I'm using software from the Debian sid repositories anyway and with success.uname -a
Linux user-pc 4.5.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.5.1-1 (2016-04-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux
These packages were upgraded:
Picking out vlc for the unpacking information:sudo apt-get install -t sid vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libiso9660-10 liblivemedia61 libtgvoip1.0 libvcdinfo0 libx265-130 prosper ttf-adf-accanthis ttf-adf-gillius
ttf-adf-universalis vlc-l10n
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libaribb24-0 libavcodec57 libavformat57 libavutil-dev libavutil55 libbasicusageenvironment1 libbrotli1 libgroupsock8
liblivemedia62 libmicrodns0 libncursesw6 libnfs11 libpcre2-16-0 libpcre2-32-0 libpcre2-8-0 libpcre2-dev
libpcre2-posix0 libplacebo4 libpostproc54 libprotobuf-lite10 libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5
libqt5designer5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5positioning5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5qml5
libqt5quick5 libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5script5 libqt5sensors5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5 libqt5test5
libqt5webchannel5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libswresample-dev libswresample2 libswscale4
libtgvoip1.0.3 libtinfo6 libusageenvironment3 libva-drm2 libva-wayland2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvlc-bin libvpx5
libwebpmux3 libwoff1 libx265-151 python3-pyqt5 python3-sip qt5-assistant qt5-qmake qt5-qmake-bin qtbase5-dev
qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev-tools vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-qt
vlc-plugin-video-output
Suggested packages:
qtwayland5 qt5-qmltooling-plugins python3-pyqt5-dbg qt5-doc default-libmysqlclient-dev firebird-dev libpq-dev
unixodbc-dev libdvdcss2
Recommended packages:
qt5-gtk-platformtheme geoclue-2.0 libqt5opengl5-dev fonts-open-sans vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba
vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libaribb24-0 libbrotli1 liblivemedia62 libmicrodns0 libncursesw6 libnfs11 libplacebo4 libprotobuf-lite10 libqt5svg5
libtgvoip1.0.3 libtinfo6 libva-wayland2 libvpx5 libwoff1 libx265-151
The following packages will be upgraded:
libavcodec57 libavformat57 libavutil-dev libavutil55 libbasicusageenvironment1 libgroupsock8 libpcre2-16-0
libpcre2-32-0 libpcre2-8-0 libpcre2-dev libpcre2-posix0 libpostproc54 libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5
libqt5designer5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5positioning5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5qml5
libqt5quick5 libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5script5 libqt5sensors5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5test5
libqt5webchannel5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libswresample-dev libswresample2 libswscale4
libusageenvironment3 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvlc-bin libwebpmux3 python3-pyqt5 python3-sip qt5-assistant
qt5-qmake qt5-qmake-bin qtbase5-dev qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev-tools vlc vlc-bin vlc-data
vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-video-output
57 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2656 not upgraded.
Need to get 68.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 5,711 kB of additional disk space will be used.
The video is a simple x264 codec:Unpacking vlc (3.0.2-1+b1) over (2.2.8-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../66-vlc-plugin-base_3.0.2-1+b1_amd64.deb ...
The sound plays just fine, only the video is missing.mediainfo 'video.mkv'
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Bit rate : 8 000 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.161
Writing library : x264 core 142 r2479 dd79a61
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Audio
ID : 2
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
P.S.: The forum software seems bugged ... line breaks inside code statements are deleted! That's why it is in quotes. I'm beginning to loose my cool. Just wanted to watch a nice movie and in trying to solve one usability bug, I stumbled upon four others
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