Bug#708137: H.264 playback problems: `main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `h264'.` (works with Totem and MPlayer)

[Paul Menzel]

Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 16:34 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 15:20 +0200 schrieb Benjamin Drung:
> > Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 15:06 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> > > (By the way, is the above a mediathekview bug to not use `cvlc`?
> > 
> > I think that you want the full VLC player with all the controls.
> >
> > > Should I install another package or VLC fall back to use the FFmpeg
> > > codecs too?
> > 
> > Have you installed the "vlc" package that ships the libavcodec plugin?
> 
> Looking at mediathekview it recommends the package `vlc` and therefore
> it should have been installed.

Installing the package `vlc` manually fixes the problem and I can play
the videos just fine.

> Not sure how I ended up with `vlc-nox`. I’ll check when I have access
> to the system again.

So `vlc-nox` was installed already due to the package `k3b`. Does
`vlc-nox` provide `vlc` in any way? I only could find

    Replaces: vlc (< 1.1.0)

which should not have to do anything with it, right?

> > PS: Yes, the libavcodec plugin should be in vlc-nox (see bug #671407).
> 
> Good to know. So either this bug is about mediathekview for some reason
> just pulling in `vlc-nox` instead of `vlc` or about the issue you
> referenced. I’ll report back in the next days.

So, I would make this bug about the problem, that `vlc` is not
installed, when `vlc-nox` is already installed.

Looking at the recommends again, I see `mplayer` in there. I also have
the MPlayer package installed. Might that be the reason?

Then the bug is about, that when `vlc-nox` and `mplayer` is installed,
mediatheview does not use MPlayer but VLC. Then this bug should be
reassigned to mediathekview.

Some solutions might be, to try MPlayer before VLC by default or just
recommend the package `vlc` and demote `mplayer` and `mplayer2` as
suggests(?), so mediathekview works out of the box.


Thanks,

Paul
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