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Despite seeing some posts and other sources noting that VLC supports utvideo (though I have found some conflicting information) when trying to play an AVI that uses the "UtVideo YUV444 BT.601" codec (ULY4), I get the following error message:
Perhaps this particular codec of the utvideo format is not supported?

Windows 10 x64
VLC 3.0.8

try Nightly Build of VLC from tomorrow

try Nightly Build of VLC from tomorrow

Tried it with the 7z variant of vlc-4.0.0-20191019-0834-dev-win64 and got the same thing:


Here is a sample since that seems to be requested often for situations like these:
https://mega.nz/#!3Edx1KYI!EO2b8_b1A5-gzHbo5Bj6dnkxXtVRQ7c869JFE8KtItY

the "tomorrow" build of 19th isn't vlc-4.0.0-20191019-0834-dev-win64

Wow, talk about a facepalm. When I copied the name of the build I did so directly from the 7-zip I downloaded just to make sure it was "correct" and paid no attention to what it actually said. I believe what happened was that at the time of download I slipped slightly and accidentally clicked "last" which points to the 10-19 build of 4.0 instead of the 10-20 build of 3.09 since they are right next to each other and didn't notice since on the next page I was just focused on making sure I downloaded installer-less, non-debug version.

Any way, I tried again with both the 3.09 build from 10-20 and 10-21 (I tripled checked that they were the correct versions and still have the same error message

vlc-3.0.9-20191020-0511-win64.7z [SHA-512: 659d0782b9762a71c026b223b31143c9f1f6b65d56b8ba8a1a57281c5a27939c6f8ba08854473e2f626a6cfc737c263928ba9e87de4ba3c0a06dbb6a03a88b49]
vlc-3.0.9-20191021-0510-win64.7z [SHA-512: aa0148e8f324f1c3cb16a19983e58b0a2c8fa5baffa90e7ffbea94e9af68a987d5918964477506ca77d7eba392e37606143b48a9f018ef1a4fdab4ea22c60f43]

I do have the current release version of 3.09 installed just in case the new exe could for some reason try to read the registry/AppData and end up pulling a database or the like from that build instead (doubt it but I thought it was worth mentioning). I ran the Nightly from "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC Nightly 3.09" vs my standard install at "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC". I obviously made sure to try and open the file directly from within the nightly version of VLC and not just making use of the VLC file-type association.

Hi, the codec support was added for 4.0.0 nightly. It's not present in the 3.0.9 yet.

Funny enough, as you can see by my mistake above, the first build I actually tried was what appears to be the latest nightly of 4.0.0 (2019-10-19-0834) and it didn't work with that either. Unless I am mistaken.

if I'm not wrong, the build for 2019-10-19 is built upon modifications since the 2019-10-18 as it is done during the night. Thus it doesn't include your fix

Tried the 10-24 build of 4.0 and it works perfectly. Thanks.