libavcodec

tomiki · 11-30-2016, 12:19 AM

I simple English what does "libavcodec" do and why is it not working, and was working until just recently.

I am running linux Mint 17 LTS.

AwesomeMachine · 11-30-2016, 02:42 AM

Can you describe the trouble you are having. Libavcodec is a library of video/audio/subtitle encoder/decoder functions. These are used mostly for watching video.

tomiki · 11-30-2016, 02:08 PM

I am running Linux Mint 17; about 3 week ago my capacity to view some videos became impossible. And something to do with Libavcodec. Sense then I have learned that libavcodec is a sub file to a much larger file call ffmpeg, which was upgraded sometime in October, to ffmpeg-3.2.1.tar.bz2. I have downloaded the new program to my linux mint 17 downloads file and now I am trying to figure out how to install it from downloads.

sneakyimp · 11-30-2016, 02:13 PM

I've been getting a warning about it too in Firefox on Ubuntu 14.04.

Code:

libavcodec may be vulnerable or is not supported, and should be updated to play video

Ztcoracat · 11-30-2016, 11:51 PM

Make sure you have the right ppa coming from the current repo that your Linux Mint get's it's updates from. If your not sure post the output of:

Code:

cat /etc/os-release

http://askubuntu.com/questions/85119...u-14-04/851192
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=222111
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...libavcodec-dev

Ztcoracat · 11-30-2016, 11:53 PM

Let us know how it works out.