VLC Player AV1 Codec Issues

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This is how to fix the codec issues for AV1 Video

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Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "av01" (AOMedia's AV1 Video)

or something like this in the terminal

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mp4 stream warning: unknown box type av1C (incompletely loaded)
mp4 demux warning: STTS table of 1 entries
main decoder error: Codec `av01' (AOMedia's AV1 Video) is not supported.

Make sure you have the latest stable version of VLC Player, as this is a format only added within version 3.0.x

Ubuntu

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sudo snap install vlc

then to run type to open the player

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snap run vlc

or you could download from this page, https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

[Administrator]

For anyone who is interested in this format, there is also an image format encoded in av1 called avif. it's quite cpu intensive but seems to be the best compression rates to date. It's not currently natively supported in the browser, but will be in the future.