Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package
Hi to Everyone !
vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11
⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays
their audio part :
« Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264 »
(H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) »
needless to say that it did work before !
If calling a .ts file with VLC…, I get no error message… but it only
plays the audio part, same as with mp4.
True enough, during the process of installing ISPY, there was a warning…
but, everyone knows what it is, in the rush I forgot to take precise
note of said warning. It said something like this, as far as I can
remember :
« Your system (or such or such component…) is too slow. Would you accept
to increase this or that… ? It won’t pose problem to your system, but it
might affect some components... (Y/N) »
I then replied « Y », in the reasoning that I could, in case of problem,
reverse the situation in removing and purging the ISPY package.
As previously said, VLC now disfunctions. Maybe something else will also
dysfunction, but I haven’t yet come across such finding.
Once installed, ISPY seemed to work, but I soon found that it wasn’t
what I had expected, so I decided to discard it, and to return the ISPY
camera to where I had bought it.
I had installed this package using the command line below :
curl -s
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main
v3/install.sh
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main>"
| bash
Once I found that VLC no longer worked OK, I first tried to reinstall
VLC. The version available for install happened to be the same one as
that I already had, that is, 3.0.21. So, I did remove and purge it, then
re-installed 3.0.21
Problem is, when I tested this newly installed VLC, it did behave as
previously, that is, it refused to play the video part of mp4 files and
displayed the previously mentioned error message.
Next, I tried to play those mp4 and ts using ‘Vidéos’ instead of vlc :
"- Impossible to read the file – Decoder H 264 is required to read this
file, but it is not installed… Unfortunately, this H 264 decoder is not
found on your system…"
Must have been there before, though !!
Below is the command line that I had used so as to install the ispy
package :
curl -s
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main/v3/install.sh
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main/v3/install.sh>"
| bash
Thanks in advance for your help in getting VLC and h264 back to work on
my system.
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