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FS#59417 - [vlc] Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "arba" (ARIB subtitles (A-profile))

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Frederick Zhang (FrederickZh) - Sunday, 22 July 2018, 14:54 GMT
Last edited by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Tuesday, 25 September 2018, 18:58 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
VLC cannot render ARIB STD B24 subtitles. I tested the same version of VLC in Windows with the same video file and it rendered the subtitles correctly.
Not quite sure whether it's an upstream issue or not. I tried re-compiling the package with "--enable-aribsub" explicitly and the subtitles still didn't show up. Also tried https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vlc-git/, no luck either.
Searched the issue in VLC's bug tracker, nothing interesting found.

Additional info:
* Version: vlc 3.0.3-2

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a TS video file which contains an ARIB STD B24 subtitle track
2. Select the subtitle track
3. Error: Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "arba" (ARIB subtitles (A-profile))

Media info:
Text #1
ID : 278 (0x116)-1
Menu ID : 1040 (0x410)
Format : ARIB STD B24/B37
Format profile : HD side panel
Muxing mode : CCIS
Codec ID : 6
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
Language : Japanese

Logs:
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 2 t=6
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 2 t=7
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: looking for packetizer module matching "any": 24 candidates
main debug: using packetizer module "copy"
main debug: looking for spu decoder module matching "any": 22 candidates
main debug: no spu decoder modules matched
main error: Codec `arba' (ARIB subtitles (A-profile)) is not supported.
main debug: killing decoder fourcc ` '
main debug: removing module "copy"
ts debug: DEMUX_SET_ES 278
ts debug: enabling pid 273 from program 1040
ts debug: enabling pid 274 from program 1040
ts debug: enabling pid 278 from program 1040
ts debug: enabling pid 279 from program 1040
ts debug: enabling pcr pid 256 from program 1040
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Closed by  Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Tuesday, 25 September 2018, 18:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  3.0.4-1
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Sunday, 22 July 2018, 15:09 GMT
Did you have https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aribb24/ installed when you rebuilt with --enable-aribsub ?
Comment by Frederick Zhang (FrederickZh) - Monday, 23 July 2018, 02:06 GMT
Ah, yup, you were right. The subtitles were correctly rendered after rebuilding the package with aribb24 installed.

May I know whether there's any plan to bring aribb24 to the official repo?
Comment by Frederick Zhang (FrederickZh) - Monday, 23 July 2018, 02:18 GMT
And by the way, is https://code.videolan.org/videolan/aribb25 also an optional build dependency?

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