Subj : Fix to play AV1 videos
To   : All
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sun Mar 08 2020 19:32:00


Hi Folks!

Had an issue where my system wouldn't play certain *.MKV video files.
In properties noted the ones that did had the VP9  codec and the ones
which did not the AV1.  A bit of Google-fu: initial hit from 2018 looked
a little too-fiddly but the one from a little over a month ago did the
trick:

  The good news is that it is relatively easy to get both playback and
  encoding with AV1 under Ubuntu 18.04:
     1. Playback: The repository vlc will not play AV1 files but if
        you install the snap version you will have that capability.
        Run the following from a Terminal:
             sudo snap install vlc
     Currently this will give you vlc 3.0.8 with AV1 playback capability.

(Extracted from:  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1202531/av1-video-
from-9gag-convert  )

One problem I noted was now I have two VLC options listed in the "select
other application" and I can't tell my original from the new - one works
and one doesn't (with the AV1 format).  My guess would be one
could/should uninstall the original VLC before installing the snap
version but I'm not sure if regular VLC does something the snap version
does not.  (Is there a way to alter the displayed title?)


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