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XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 22:06
by snowball
I am trying to play a .mov video file and it is giving me the following error in VLC:

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "XiVs". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

I have tried playing the file in QuickTime but it ends up freezing on me whereas VLC will play the video just fine but the audio will not.

I have tried downloading the XiPH codec pack for quick time but it didn't help in VLC.

Any help?

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 22:16
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Please give us the sample.

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 22:19
by snowball
Please give us the sample.
the video in question is 900MB.

Unless you mean something else...

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 22:48
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
No way we can fix that with a shorter sample....

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 00:10
by DJ
Could you be more specific as to what the formats are (both audio and video) in a .mov container?

Generally, Quicktime doesn't do XviD or DivX under Windows even though they say it does with the proper codecs installed.

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 15:33
by VLC_help
FourCC.org doesn't know XiVs, are you sure about the spelling?

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 19:38
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Yes XiVs is a QuickTime HACK to put Xiph Vorbis in mkv.

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 18:24
by ethereal
sooo how does this get fixed? i have the same problem...

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 18:48
by ethereal
solution found:

download Xiph Codec for Windows or Mac here: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html

snowball: this will work for cinematography style.

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 31 Jul 2009 18:28
by ethereal
hmm... any luck fixing up VLC to play this codec?

Re: XiVs Codec VLC 0.9.2

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 16:55
by VLC_help
I haven't seen any development in mailing list.