vlc and codecs

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vlc and codecs

Postby sjensen » 16 Apr 2007 16:14

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Where does VLC pull its codecs from? Can it use other things, like the "windows" dlls that mplayer can point to?


Weird issues - I finally got things working for an important broadcast, but I have to use my personal desktop to do it. Running Ubuntu 6.10.... a second computer, also with Ubuntu 6.10, and both have the vlc that come with apt-get install... My desktop can play video from a v4l capture card/webcam/etc but the second computer just displays a blue box for video.

Anyway, I'm duping my desktop over to the second machine, but I'm wondering where the differences between the 2 vlc installs are coming from....

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 16 Apr 2007 16:26

The codecs are internal to VLC. It does not use proprietary dlls as MPlayer does.

Change the Video Output module and options on the second computer.
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