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When I play a .webm file using the VP9 codec in VLC, I get the following error message (and the audio is played):

VLC does not support the audio or video format "VP90". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

I can play these files in totem, but how can I play them in VLC?

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 and VLC is 2.1.6. The package ubuntu-restricted-extras is installed.

Joschua
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  • What version of Ubuntu are you using? – Oli Oct 10 '14 at 09:39
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    possible duplicate of http://askubuntu.com/questions/34372/how-to-play-a-webm-video-file – αғsнιη Oct 10 '14 at 11:07
  • @KasiyA In the question you linked webm doesn't work in any player, but for me it works in totem. This is about VLC not playing it. – Joschua Oct 14 '14 at 09:46
  • @Oli I added the version I'm using to the question. – Joschua Nov 04 '14 at 11:46
  • The possible reason could be that, webm file contain an audio stream which is using a proprietary format. In that case, it will fail to produce audio. otherwise, vlc plays webm file fine – Anwar Nov 12 '14 at 14:46
  • @AnwarShah The audio plays fine, the video using the codec VP90 isn't working. (Other .webm files are working fine.) – Joschua Nov 12 '14 at 20:24

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VP9 requires VLC 2.2.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-*

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=131211

I had this problem in ubuntu 14.04 and it got solved by installing VLC 2.2.

Terence Rajkamal
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There is no need to install ubuntu-restricted-extras to be able to play WebM with VLC. VLC 2.1.2 supports VP9 by default (see http://www.webmproject.org/vp9/ and http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.1.2.html). You might try upgrading VLC or installing the latest stable by downloading it from the VLC site directly.

Karl Wilbur
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I've had to apt remove vlc-? before I found out that something from that package was playing havoc with HTML5 video ('vp9' codec)/DASH accelerated video rendering/streaming in Firefox.

L Tischmann
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You may need to install restricted extras: 

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

That should work. But if it doesn't work after installing ubuntu-restricted-extras

Open Ubuntu Software center and search for "gstreamer" and install it.

Or open the terminal and type the following commands: 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0*

I hope that helps.

Yuran Pereira
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