How to fix Video Decoders for REAPER on Ubuntu newer than 20.04

[kestermckinney]

You’ll need a specific version of ffmpeg libraries and VLC libraries to get the video decoders to work on newer versions of Ubuntu. I’ve seen several posts that contain links to downloadable files. In most cases the links end up broke. It’s also not a very safe way to download executable files. What I did to resolve the issue was to download Ubuntu Studio 20.04 and booted to a live copy in a virtual machine. I logged into the virtual machine and copied the files I needed.

I copied the files below from Ubuntu Studio 20.04 folder /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu into a folder called reaperfix

libaom.so.0
libarchive.so.13
libarchive.so.13.4.0
libargon2.so.1
libaribb24.so.0
libaribb24.so.0.0.0
libarpack.so.2
libarpack.so.2.1.0
libart_lgpl_2.so.2
libart_lgpl_2.so.2.3.21
libavahi-client.so.3
libavahi-client.so.3.2.9
libavahi-common.so.3
libavahi-common.so.3.5.3
libavahi-core.so.7
libavahi-core.so.7.0.2
libavahi-glib.so.1
libavahi-glib.so.1.0.2
libavahi-gobject.so.0
libavahi-gobject.so.0.0.5
libavc1394.so.0
libavc1394.so.0.3.0
libavcodec.so.58
libavcodec.so.58.54.100
libavdevice.so.58
libavdevice.so.58.8.100
libavfilter.so.7
libavfilter.so.7.57.100
libavformat.so.58
libavformat.so.58.29.100
libavresample.so.4
libavresample.so.4.0.0
libavutil.so.56
libavutil.so.56.31.100
libcodec2.so.0.9
libdvbpsi.so.10
libdvbpsi.so.10.0.0
libdvdnav.so.4
libdvdnav.so.4.2.0
libdvdread.so.7
libdvdread.so.7.0.0
libebml.so.4
libebml.so.4.0.0
libmatroska.so.6
libmatroska.so.6.0.0
libmpc.so.3
libmpc.so.3.1.0
libmpcdec.so.6
libmpcdec.so.6.1.0
libopencore-amrnb.so.0
libopencore-amrnb.so.0.0.3
libopencore-amrwb.so.0
libopencore-amrwb.so.0.0.3
libopenmpt.so.0
libopenmpt.so.0.1.1
libopenmpt_modplug.so.1
libopenmpt_modplug.so.1.0.0
libpostproc.so.55
libpostproc.so.55.5.100
libsidplay.so.1
libsidplay.so.1.0.3
libswresample.so.3
libswresample.so.3.5.100
libswscale.so.5
libswscale.so.5.5.100
libvo-aacenc.so.0
libvo-aacenc.so.0.0.4
libvo-amrwbenc.so.0
libvo-amrwbenc.so.0.0.4
libvoikko.so.1
libvoikko.so.1.16.0
libvolume_key.so.1
libvolume_key.so.1.2.3
libvorbis.so.0
libvorbis.so.0.4.8
libvorbisenc.so.2
libvorbisenc.so.2.0.11
libvorbisfile.so.3
libvorbisfile.so.3.3.7
libvpx.so.6
libvpx.so.6.2
libvpx.so.6.2.0
libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.56.10
libwebp.so.6
libwebp.so.6.0.2
libwebpdemux.so.2
libwebpdemux.so.2.0.3
libwebpmux.so.3
libwebpmux.so.3.0.1
libwebrtc_audio_processing.so.1
libwebrtc_audio_processing.so.1.0.0
libx264.so.155
libx265.so.179

Then, I copied all the files and subfolders in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc folder from Ubuntu Studio 20.04 into a folder called vlcfix

I moved the vlcfix and reaperfix folders to the home directory of my computer I wanted to fix for REAPER.

From the computer I wanted to fix REAPER:

I installed ffmpeg:

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Then I installed vlc:

sudo apt install vlc-bin

I made sure to remove vlc base plugins (if you have them installed):

sudo apt remove vlc-plugin-base


From the console of the destination computer I used these copy commands from my home folder to copy over files, and made sure I didn’t overwrite any by using the —update=none option.

sudo cp -r —update=none reaperfix/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
sudo cp -r —update=none vlcfix/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/

Your reaper decoding configuration settings should now look like this: