VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264" - How to fix?

Issue:

While opening a video files in VLC like mp4 you may get the below error.

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

You will be able to listen sound but not able to watch video.

Solution

For this issue we need to install a rpm package libdvdcss-1.2.12-1. It is available in only one repository - livna.

To install this package follow the below steps.

# yum localinstall http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm
# yum install libdvdcss

It will install libvdcss package. Instead of above step you can follow only the below step.

For 64 bit

 rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/repo/18/x86_64/libdvdcss-1.2.12-1.fc17.remi.x86_64.rpm

For 32 bit

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/repo/18/i386/libdvdcss-1.2.12-1.fc17.remi.i686.rpm