[CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer

Mon Mar 30 09:53:18 UTC 2020
Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>

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.