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I downloaded Opera 11.5, and VLC 1.10, both work well, with either mp3 or OGG.

However, with aac+, I receive only an error message:

Mageia Error Message wrote:No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "mp4a". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

Any ideas?

I downloaded the "tainted" versions of vlc including the "tainted" update, after receiving this message, but to no avail.

CAI ENG

I forget what vlc uses, but you could try installing gstreamer0.10-faad and lib64faad2_2 or libfaad2_2 from tainted.

Thank you djennings.

I appreciate your input.

I did search for these two files, but, without success finding them.

The entire process is so frustrating, annoying, and absurd, it just makes me incredibly angry.

I have no need to waste my time searching for this crap.

If I select VLC, from the software repository, that SHOULD BE THE END OF THE STORY.

utterly without reason or logic.

CAI ENG

Caieng,

Do you have tainted repositories configured and enabled?
Have you been aware that both search-filters in Software Management -> Install and remove software are changed to "All"?

caieng wrote:If I select VLC, from the software repository, that SHOULD BE THE END OF THE STORY.

No, not at all. You may not be aware of the fact that there are 2 flavors of vlc - the free version (which is on the DVD and in the core repository) and the non-free/tainted version with such plugins you need. This is in the tainted repo which you have to activate in your media configuration.

This tainted repository has software which may be illegal to use in certain countries and for this reason this repo is de-activated - you have to opt-in. If you don't like that, pls complain at the governments of such countries which recognize software patents.

I had this trouble as well. vlc didn't want to let go of the normal release version due to vlc-plugin-common.
urpme vlc vlc-plugin-common && urpmi --media tainted vlc vlc-plugin-common
of course you need the tainted repositories.

benja22 wrote:urpme vlc vlc-plugin-common && urpmi --media tainted vlc vlc-plugin-common

I've been having similar problems and I am a newbie.
When I tried the above command it didn't work.
Then I found out that I have to su first.
So I did the su first then the urpme command.
Cut the story short, VLC works fine ever since.

Thanks benja22!