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Newbie here. Sorry if this is a FAQ.

Fedora 11 (up-to-date), source (latest) build configure options: -disable-swscale --disable-postproc --disable-fribidi --disable-qt4 --disable-skins2

I'm interested only in command line execution.

cvlc foo.mp2 results in "no suitable decoder module for fourcc `mpgv'"

Could someone kindly elucidate this? FWIW, the mp2 file is playable with mplayer.

do you have an avcodec module in vlc --list ?

No. Should have come in with ffmpeg. Thanks.

Turns out that ffmpeg builds only .a by default. One needs an option to get relocatable .so How strange is that?

--enable-shared?
You need to recompile VLC afterwards.