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VLC could not decode the format "h264"
Posted: 22 May 2014 20:38
by plittlefield
Hello
First it was the ID3 tag support that went... so I cannot scrobble to Last.fm
Now it's the H264... that was working fine yesterday, and has been for the last 2 years.
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Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))
It's on a .mkv that plays fine in another VLC and (clears throat) mplayer...
What's going ON with my favourite media player?!?
Paully
Ubuntu 12.04.04 LTS
VLC 2.2.0~~git20140521+r56855+123+113+102~ubuntu12.04.1
Re: VLC could not decode the format "h264"
Posted: 23 May 2014 04:55
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
Your VLC installation is hosed (not unlikely given the weird version number), or the build lacks libavcodec.
Re: VLC could not decode the format "h264"
Posted: 24 May 2014 23:32
by rogersst
Hi,
I'm having the same problem with the same version of VLC as you. When I run it from the command line I get following messages:
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[00007fef78c23518] core decoder error: corrupt module: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so
[00007fef78c23518] core decoder error: Codec `h264' (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) is not supported.
[00007fef78c89f08] core decoder error: corrupt module: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so
Corrupt libraries are never fun
Re: VLC could not decode the format "h264"
Posted: 27 May 2014 21:07
by plittlefield
Hi Roger
Did you fix your system?
Re: VLC could not decode the format "h264"
Posted: 03 Jun 2014 01:08
by jpeg729
Re: VLC could not decode the format "h264"
Posted: 07 Dec 2018 02:15
by johan22981954
It happen to my ubuntu, when i want to watch a recorded video from my DVB-T2 Tuner.
What I did to make it works:
1. Install the ubuntu-restricted* (* --> everything followed after that string)
2. Uninstall VLC, and re-install back
After both steps, i try to play the video, it works!!!
Re: VLC could not decode the format "h264"
Posted: 04 Feb 2020 01:15
by Landis
I had installed ver 3.xxx and removed, re-installed 2.2xxx then I got this error.
I couldn't figure it out, but after an hour I decided to install / re-install the following:
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# zypper in -f libavcodec52 vlc-codecs vlc-noX-lang libva2 libva-x11-2 libva-wayland2 libva-glx2 libva-drm2 libavdevice52 libavformat52 libavc1394
VLC 2.2.xxx is now working (again)... pew.
Landis.