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Jun 8, 2010

[SOLVED] Media Playing issues in VLC in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat


I had problems with playing media files in VLC in Maverick Meerkat. Other players (SMPlayer) seemed to work fine. VLC gave errors like:

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

And

“No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format “H264”. VLC Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.”

Found this solution written by my friend khattam but it didn’t solve my issue. It still gave errors.

I solved the errors after removing libavutil-extra-49, libavutil-extra-50 and installing libavutil50, libavutil49.

sudo apt-get install libavutil50 libavutil49

This will automatically remove the libavutil-extra-49 and libavutil-extra-50 and install libavutil50 and libavutil49 over it. It solved the issue for me.

Click here if this doesn’t solve your issue.

Cheers!

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  • Unni

    This is the best solution

  • Unni

    This is the best solution

  • http://www.techmindz.com Deepak Mittal

    Glad that it helped :)

  • http://www.techmindz.com Deepak Mittal

    Glad that it helped :)

  • War59312

    No such luck here. :(

    will@will-linux-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libavutil50 libavutil49
    [sudo] password for will:
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Package libavutil49 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source
    However the following packages replace it:
    libavutil-extra-49

    E: Package ‘libavutil49′ has no installation candidate

  • thiyagi

    War59312 : Dude, you can get it in synaptic manager..

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