vlc can not define codec for FOURCC "h264" localhost store #vlc -vv *.avi ... [00000312] main decoder debug: looking for decoder module: 23 candidates [00000312] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `h264'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. [00000312] main decoder debug: killing decoder fourcc `h264', 0 PES in FIFO ... mplayer and xine play this file. localhost ~ # emerge -pv x264-svn ffmpeg vlc [ebuild R ] media-libs/x264-svn-20070325 USE="threads -debug" 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r1 USE="X a52 aac amr encode ieee1394 imlib mmx network ogg sdl test theora threads truetype v4l vorbis x264 xvid zlib (-altivec) -debug -doc -oss" 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.6c USE="X a52 alsa arts bidi cdda cddb corba daap directfb dts dvb dvd esd fbcon flac hal httpd jack libnotify lirc live matroska mod mp3 mpeg musepack ncurses nsplugin ogg opengl png rtsp sdl sdl-image skins speex stream svg theora truetype upnp v4l vcd vlm vorbis wxwindows x264 xml xosd xv (-3dfx) -aalib (-altivec) -avahi -dc1394 -debug -ggi -gnutls -libcaca -optimisememory -oss -samba -seamonkey -shout (-svga) (-win32codecs) -xinerama" 0 kB localhost ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.6 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:47:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -msse3 " CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -msse3 " DISTDIR="/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://mirror.aiya.ru/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr apache2 arts artworkextra audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth boost browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr clamav cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus directfb djvu dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetype2 gdbm gif gimp gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jack java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kipi ladspa lame lcms ldap libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors logrotate lzw lzw-tiff mad midi mmap mmx mmxext mng mono mozilla mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses neXt nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png postgres ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs sdl sensord session slang slp sndfile sox speex spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tools truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd visualization vorbis wifi wmf x264 xcb xcomposite xml xml2 xorg xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="canon fuji template ptp2 directory" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse ps2mouse penmount evdev joystik" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS P.S. I had rebuild x264-svn, ffmpeg, vlc but vlc still not work... Reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183584 ***
