[CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer

Tue Mar 31 02:18:49 UTC 2020
Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com>

On 2020-03-30 00:13, Ted Miller wrote:
> I have generally found that installing VLC takes care of my codec needs. 
> Have not tried it on Centos8 yet.
> Ted Miller
> 
> 
> On 3/29/20 11:18 PM, 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?
>>
>> Thank you for responding.  I really do appreciate it.
>>
> 
> 

The box says,
"No match for argument: vlc
Error: Unable to find a match: vlc"

Perhaps there's another repo like epel for CentOS 8 where these toys live?

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