VLC Support For utvideo Codec ULY4

[oblivioncth]

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:

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Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "ULY4" (No description for this codec)

Perhaps this particular codec of the utvideo format is not supported?

Windows 10 x64
VLC 3.0.8

[InTheWings]

try Nightly Build of VLC from tomorrow

[oblivioncth]

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

[InTheWings]

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

[oblivioncth]

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.

[unidan]

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

[oblivioncth]

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.

[unidan]

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

[oblivioncth]

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