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Are there any codecs that can't be played with VLC?

Musepack (MPC) files aren't listed as supported by VLC. I don't have any MPC files to test at the moment to see if that's truly the case.
 
RVMB files (or whatever the extension is) can't be played by VLC I don't believe, along with ASF and some WMV files, but other than that VLC will handle everything I throw at it, even including bin/cue files of videos! :cool: I have MPlayer on standby just in case, and otherwise I have Flip4Mac for all my WMV needs, but 99% of the time I just use VLC and it works like a charm.
 
VLC seems very unstable to me on my MBP. Is there some daily build that is preferable to others?
 
From the Videolan.org FAQ:

At present, especially WMV3, the most Real Player, and the most Indeo Video ("IV50", etc.) files are not supported by VLC and are not going to be in the near future.
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Probably, obviously, also, anything that's DRM'd is out, AFAIK.
 
I could name quite a lot on the Mac platform, not a lot for Windows though.

Most annoying, no Windows Media 10 compatibility for Macs. :mad:
 
mkrishnan said:
At present, especially WMV3, the most Real Player, and the most Indeo Video ("IV50", etc.) files are not supported by VLC and are not going to be in the near future.
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Is this due to licensing? Also, newbie question - what's Indeo Video? I remember seeing old OS 9 extensions for it and wondering what the heck it was.
 
Steelfist is right.
h264 in matroska can technically play.

technically.

the sound is off and it stutters, might be because i'm running it on a powerbook and its a lot to decode, but it works fine on my 1.8ghz sempron windows box with less ram.
I just wish someone would make a media player classic and convert a bunch of the codecs for matroska and all that over to OSX.
 
Rocksaurus said:
Is this due to licensing? Also, newbie question - what's Indeo Video? I remember seeing old OS 9 extensions for it and wondering what the heck it was.
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I think ... partially. I think it's mostly that MS doesn't publish how the latest WMV codec works, and so I think it takes a long time for anyone to be able to run them, because they have to be reverse engineered. For the DRM versions, it's probably technically illegal to even reverse engineer them. Not to mention difficult.

Indeo is a codec that Intel developed, but then sold to a company called Ligos, apparently. I don't know too much about it, in terms of whether or not it has ever actually been used much. I think the initial point was to make a codec that took advantage of extended instruction sets on Pentium processors. Although there was also a Mac version, as you pointed out, at one time. Apparently it still exists, but I'm not even sure it's bundled with XP computers anymore.
 
andcraig said:
Steelfist is right.
h264 in matroska can technically play.

technically.

the sound is off and it stutters, might be because i'm running it on a powerbook and its a lot to decode, but it works fine on my 1.8ghz sempron windows box with less ram.
I just wish someone would make a media player classic and convert a bunch of the codecs for matroska and all that over to OSX.
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I would put money on PPC support for x264 being there just so it can be used, and isn't the focus of any performance-minded coding. Too bad there's no real solution to this. QT is much more efficient at h.264 decoding, but it doesn't natively handle MKV and there isn't a component I've found that adds this. :(
 
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