What's happened to mp4a in VLC? [SOLVED]

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What's happened to mp4a in VLC? [SOLVED]

Postby DiBosco » Aug 9th, '14, 11:31

Has anyone else noticed that VLC has stopped playing mp4a files. It's been working for ages and suddenly completely refuses to play the audio. Having uninstalled mplayer and reinstalled that from tainted, smplayer will play mp4a encoded files, but VLC doesn't .It's happened on both my Magea 4 64 bit machines.

I don't remember seeing VLC updated, but maybe it has and i missed it?

Has anyone else encountered this?!
Last edited by DiBosco on Aug 19th, '14, 16:10, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: What's happened to mp4a in VLC?

Postby claire » Aug 9th, '14, 20:54

Vlc uses its own plugins. Find them named vlc-plugin-* iinm. Im unable to check ATM. The one you want will likely be tainted.
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Re: What's happened to mp4a in VLC?

Postby doktor5000 » Aug 10th, '14, 01:09

Nope, vlc working fine here. This is what I've got installed currently:

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[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ rg vlc
lib64vlc-devel-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
lib64vlc5-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
lib64vlccore7-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-common-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-flac-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-gnutls-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-libass-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-libnotify-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-lua-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-pulse-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-shout-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-theora-2.1.5-1.mga4.tainted
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Re: What's happened to mp4a in VLC? [SOLVED]

Postby DiBosco » Aug 19th, '14, 12:35

Uninstalled all vlc stuff, enabled only tainited and reinstalled and vlc now works.

Something funky happened, because it has been working for months and just stopped!
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