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Ok, i downloaded a file that was in the format of .iso (atleast i thought). However, whenever i try and play it on the vlc player it gives me this message:


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

I guess my question is, if there is nothing i can do to fix this with the vlc, is there any other player i can get that will rectify this problem?

Any help is appreciated.

thanks

Can you provide us the stream ? This should be fixed for 1.0.

I have the 0.9.6 vlc media player version. If that answers ur question?

0.9.6 doesn't decode MLP.
1.0 will. Therefore, if you could provide a sample, that would be great.

You can also test 1.0.0 by yourself if you like living on the edge.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 1208-0006/

So how do i obtain version 1.0? Is it downloadable or ?

Download .zip version, extract it to somewhere, doubleclick vlc.exe and try to open the file.

A sample would be great.

I just stumbled upon this. The "No decoder..." message for mlp occurred when I used (Free)RealPlayer and just went to look at the most recent clips displayed in the default opening page.
The file extension that is created is .ivr (Internet video recording) and it would appear that mlp encoding is used.
Having found this forum/posting, I downloaded the 19April2009 nightly build expecting it was well fixed by now...

'fraid not yet.

There is no sign of either .ivr or .mlp (?!) in the default Media or video file types selection so I had to try playing via an ALL files opening. It tries to play and no longer reports decoder error (as does 0.9), but aborts after 1 second.

I haven't tried the debug version.

Anyway, by using Realplayer you should easily be able to reproduce/test/fix this issue.

Good luck.

Can you give some .ivr samples?

I don't think it is a VLC problem.

Uptill a few months ago I could play some files using VLC player. But I just reinstalled everything on my new machine and BOOM! 30% of my files (all that I could play on VLC before) started to give me the mlp file error.

I have two copies of the same file one works and the other does not. They are 180MB each. Where can I upload them?

I did however do some installing/uninstalling of older/newer version of VLC.

Could that be it?

Where can I upload them?

http://streams.videolan.org/upload/ or ftp://ftp.videolan.org/incoming

I am also having a problem playing MLP files that work fine in Winamp with an MLP plugin. If you would like a sample I can upload Stereo and 5.1 MLP files. I tried the latest nightly build (2009-06-15) and VLC looks like it's going to play and then just stops.

Samples are out best friends, so yes, send them to us.

When I upload a file via the form it ALWAYS tells me that I didn't set the version and to start again. When I upload files to the FTP it looks like it hasn't worked when the file is finished and my client (Filezilla) just uploads the file over and over again.

Put it on rapidshare or anything like it.

Here are some MLP files which won't play in VLC but do play in other media players.

http://bitsurge.net/mlp/TestMLP5.1.mlp
http://bitsurge.net/mlp/TestMLPStereo.mlp

http://bitsurge.net/mlp/TestMLPStereo.mlp that works fine in VLC 1.1.0-git-20090525-2206

I'm having a similar problem, surround sound MLP audio seems to somewhat work. The front two channels play fine, but the surrounds do not seem to work properly. They send out some of the rear signals out, but not all of them. When I try something like DigiOn, the files play perfectly, but VLC does not properly play it. Are there some special settings or something that can amend this problem?
Thanks for any help! The samples provided earlier are perfect to work with.

So, the issue is 5.1 MLP?

Can someone fill a bug on it?

I can when someone confirms that this happens with VLC 1.0.0 (I don't have 5.1 setup to test this)

Well *that* is weird. VLC can playback my trhd file (actually it is in an mkv file)in Windows while not being able to decode it in linux.... Same version for both of them, I think. Linux is 1.0.2-git Goldeneye. Now Windows I can tell you some other time (I haven't logged on to Windows since last week). The trhd file is 5.1

Your ffmpeg is too old on your linux. This is not VLC's fault.

Windows can playback 5.1 file alright. Version of Windows is 1.00. (I thought that vlc didn't use ffmpeg but its own compiled codecs, thanx for the info though).

And one more thing in Windows.Vlc can't realize that the file is 5.1, so I have to go to Audio->Audio device->5.1 in order to hear it in all of my 5.1