[SOLVED] VLC 2.0.4 not playing videos, but totem is

Question

I have been scouring google and forum posts, etc. for answers to this, but haven't found anything that quite addresses it.
VLC won't play several different video formats, but plays the sound after displaying the following message:
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
Running VLC from command line with verbosity produces the following clues:
[0x7f3164c05e88] main decoder warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.54: symbol av_asprintf, version LIBAVUTIL_51 not defined in file libavutil.so.51 with link time reference)
[0x7f3164c05e88] main decoder error: corrupt module: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so
Using "pacman -Qo" shows that these files are owned by ffmpeg. I have tried removing and re-installing ffmpeg, with no change in results.
I can play the video files with totem, so it seems like some kind of glitch with ffmpeg.
Any ideas?
Last edited by ruhly (2012-12-28 18:12:33)

Answer 1

Here is what I have installed vis-a-vis gstreamer (pcaman -Qs gstreamer):
local/clutter-gst 1.9.92-1
    GStreamer bindings for clutter
local/gnome-video-effects 0.4.0-2
    A collection of GStreamer effects
local/gst-libav 1.0.3-1
    Gstreamer libav Plugin
local/gst-plugins-bad 1.0.3-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugins
local/gst-plugins-base 1.0.3-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins
local/gst-plugins-base-libs 1.0.3-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugin libraries
local/gst-plugins-good 1.0.3-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins
local/gstreamer 1.0.3-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework
local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.36-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework
local/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.23-3
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugin libraries (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.23-3 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugins (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.36-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.36-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
local/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    Gstreamer FFMpeg Plugin
local/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.31-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.31-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)
local/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.22-1
    Python bindings for GStreamer 0.10
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.19-3
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.19-3 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly Plugins (gst-plugins-ugly)
local/totem 3.6.3-1 (gnome-extra)
    GNOME3 movie player based on GStreamer
Is anyone else having this problem with VLC 2.0.4, or is it just something I have wrought on myself?