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help fixing a broken install
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 08:52
by fmartins
Hi,
I have vlc 0.9.9a in ubuntu 9.04 and when I go to this radio stream
http://www.rfm.pt/live/streamnew_rfm.asx it complains of missing wma2 codec. However I have a similar install in another PC which works well. I have also tried vlc 1... from the PPA but it's the same.
I suspect it was an install of openshot that broke codecs installation but after removal it's the same. So I was wondering which libraries are below vlc that I could reinstall. What elese could I do to pinpoint/fix this problem?
TIA,
Fernando
Re: help fixing a broken install
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 15:15
by xtophe
reinstall libavcodec libavutil libavformat libswscale and libpostproc
Re: help fixing a broken install
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 20:31
by fmartins
Thanks for the help. Reinstalling those did not fix the problem. However I noticed that libavutil is installed twice:
- libavutil-unstripped-50
- libavutil-unstripped-49
whereas in the other computer only -49 is installed. So I wonder whether -50 is incompatible with vlc.
When I try to remove -50, synaptic asks for removal of a lot of files, including vlc. I'm not happy to do since I might mess up even more with the system.
What would you advice to do?
Re: help fixing a broken install
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:14
by xtophe
does vlc -vvv --no-plugins-cache --list |grep avcodec produces any warning (in yellow) ? Does it lists avcodec ?
Re: help fixing a broken install
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 20:30
by fmartins
no, I get (in green)
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avcodec FFmpeg audio/video decoder
avcodec FFmpeg audio/video encoder
avcodec FFmpeg deinterlace video filter
I ran vlc -v 2 from the command line with the stream and I got (tail of it):
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[00000498] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (49628)
[00000498] main audio output warning: buffer is 49628 late, triggering upsampling
[00000498] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (47422)
[00000498] main audio output warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling
[00000498] main audio output warning: buffer is 97049 late, triggering upsampling
[00000498] message audio output warning: message queue overflowed
[00000498] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (45845)
[00000498] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (139878), dropping buffer
[00000511] main demux warning: no access_demux module matched "http"
[00000516] main demux warning: no access_demux module matched "mms"
[00000517] main access warning: connection timed out
[00000517] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[00000517] main access warning: connection timed out
[00000517] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[00000517] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server
[00000517] access_mms access error: cannot read data 2
[00000519] asf stream warning: unknown asf object (not loaded)
[00000519] asf stream warning: unknown asf object (not loaded)
[00000521] avcodec decoder warning: Physical channel configuration not set : guessing
[00000521] avcodec decoder error: cannot open codec (Windows Media Audio 2)
[00000521] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `wma2'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
[00000517] access_mms access warning: unimplemented query in control
Re: help fixing a broken install
Posted: 07 Oct 2009 07:47
by fmartins
Hi,
I was told in the ubuntu forum that indeed openshot has borked ffmpeg libraries. I'll try the solution out and report back.
Indeed it works, see thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1281367
Thanks for your help!