how to play MLV video on ubuntu

Question

I have Ubuntu 17.10 and i want to play the MLV video format.

i tried the default video player and VLC and doesn't work.

i tried also the following command:

sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-libde265

and the result that this package not found

Were did you find this command ? – N. Cornet Jan 03 '18 at 09:09 — N. Cornet, Jan 03 '18 at 09:09
See http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9560.0 – Jonas Czech Jan 03 '18 at 10:35 — Jonas Czech, Jan 03 '18 at 10:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 03 '18 at 09:26

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Magic Lantern Video (mlv) is an obscure raw video format and is not going to be natively supported in most applications. Generally you'll have to convert it to another format like dv to have players like VLC support it.

answered Jan 03 '18 at 09:26

jdwolf

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '18 at 12:16

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You can find a lot of resources, tools and documentation on how to handle MLV files here: ML RAW-tools & more how to deal with .raw/mlv & cDNG files in Linux

Good luck!

answered Jan 03 '18 at 12:16

galoget

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how to play MLV video on ubuntu

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