Hey Y'all,
What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a replacement for them but I don't know what.
I appear to be having codec issues but, not knowing what's supposed to handle the jobs that the two programs used to do, I don't know where to look for a commercial set of codecs compatible with the application.
I'm getting error messages, "No video with supported format and MIME type found." when visiting certain web sites with Firefox. I would try it with Chrome but that does not appear to be available in the CentOS 8 repos either.
I found solutions to this issue on the net that involved turning off HTML5 direct rendering and using Flash, but that's not going to happen.
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:34:20 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote:
What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a replacement for them but I don't know what.
rpmfusion might be what you're looking for.
On 2020-03-29 18:42, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:34:20 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote:
What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a replacement for them but I don't know what.
rpmfusion might be what you're looking for.
I'm assuming that rpmfusion is a repository that I have to set up on my new squeaky clean freshly installed machine and then proceed to pollute it with questionable packages. ;-)
I'll look into that tomorrow.
What I would really like to know is, were these applications replaced with something else that I should be using instead?
Thank you for responding. I really do appreciate it.
On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 23:18 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 2020-03-29 18:42, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:34:20 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote:
What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a replacement for them but I don't know what.
rpmfusion might be what you're looking for.
I'm assuming that rpmfusion is a repository that I have to set up on my new squeaky clean freshly installed machine and then proceed to pollute it with questionable packages. ;-)
I'll look into that tomorrow.
What I would really like to know is, were these applications replaced with something else that I should be using instead?
mplayer always has been in rpmfusion - it contains support for codecs that are classed as non-free such as MPEG.
I don't know about CentOS8 'cos I've never looked, but the default video player in Fedora is Totem (aka "Videos").
P.
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:53:18 +0100 Pete Biggs pete@biggs.org.uk wrote:
On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 23:18 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 2020-03-29 18:42, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:34:20 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote:
What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a replacement for them but I don't know what.
rpmfusion might be what you're looking for.
google: mpv centos 8 vlc centos 8
Name : mpv Description : Mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide : variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. : Special input URL types are available to read input from a variety of : sources other than disk files. Depending on platform, a variety of different : video and audio output methods are supported.
Name : vlc Description : VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework : that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and : various streaming protocols.
BR, Bob
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:16 AM Bob Marcan bob.marcan@gmail.com wrote:
vlc centos 8
yeah, I dig VLC, I use it on multiple platforms, and it consistently seems to be able to play everything without any nonsense.
Looks like rpmfusion is the distro of choice for it on Centos/rhel 8....
On 2020-03-30 06:54, John Pierce wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:16 AM Bob Marcan bob.marcan@gmail.com wrote:
vlc centos 8
yeah, I dig VLC, I use it on multiple platforms, and it consistently seems to be able to play everything without any nonsense.
Looks like rpmfusion is the distro of choice for it on Centos/rhel 8....
vlc did the trick. Thank you to all for your help.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 06:34:20PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
I'm getting error messages, "No video with supported format and MIME type found." when visiting certain web sites with Firefox. I would try it with Chrome but that does not appear to be available in the CentOS 8 repos either.
I suspect you're trying to view video using the H264 codec.
To use h264 (and aac) with firefox, you need to install the FFMpeg library (libavcodec) which is a package not provided by CentOS because of patent issues. RPMFusion (as others have mentioned) includes packages.
You can always figure out what packages are needed for ffmpeg and limit the rpmfusion free repo to only pull down those updates.
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