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Hello,

I've tried the vlc nightlies for ubuntu and it's very great to have a repesotory to try vlc 0.9

Il really love it

But of course i have a question : i have some difficulties to read some streams whith it like
mms://vipmms9.yacast.net/bfm_bfmtv (french bfmtv) with an error of codec

Is it a problem of ffmpeg or i have something else to install?

Many thanks for your help i really need it

Cordialement

I think it's an ffmpeg problem

you should try the package from medibuntu repositories

Thanks for your reply funman but i didn't find vlc in the medibuntu repositories
and the official ubuntu vlc must use a very old ffmpeg vesion.

I hope that with gutsy we will have a "good" package of vlc able to read wmv3 and vp6 codec (like with the windows version)

i meant the *ffmpeg* libraries in medibuntu (libavcodec,libavformat etc..)

Hello

It's what i've done but it's not really better. Still have problems whith wmv3 codecs and vp6

Merci quand même

i've no problems at all reading the stream you gave (bfmtv) with both vlc & mplayer.

i'm using gutsy, and a custom ffmpeg, so i don't have the same setup than you :/

can you be specific about the error with that stream ?

like, say exactly what is printed/what happens.

bonne chance

hello

With the offial release of feisty or with the nightly y have the same message

ffmpeg error: cannot open codec (Windows Media Video 3)
main error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `WMV3'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

The sound is ok but y have no video

With mplayer it's ok but y think that mplayer use w32codecs

Thanks for your help

[fun@zod ~]% ffmpeg -formats 2>&1 |grep wmv3
D V wmv3

that shows that my ffmpeg supports wmv3 decoding.

try that with both official & medibuntu packages

hello

Here is the result from france

ffmpeg -formats 2>&1 |grep wmv3
D V wmv3

So, that's should mean that my ffmpeg is ok with wmv3 but not my vlc?

YES

YES

Thanks for your help