> > I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7.I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise) the drivers from CentOS 7.> It would not do videos at all. > It claimed it did not have mp4 codecs. > It made the same complaint about avi and flv files.That's mainly because they are non-free codecs so aren't included by default. P.
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote:>> I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7. > > I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had > differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise) > the drivers from CentOS 7.I've been looking. I keep finding claims that Fedora live CD's exist, but not actual images. I did find a C6 live CD. No go. Without additional installs, it would not even try. After accepting its offers to install dragon and totem, it still would not play any videos. ... not working falling back to default. The default was blank.>> It would not do videos at all. >> It claimed it did not have mp4 codecs. >> It made the same complaint about avi and flv files. > > That's mainly because they are non-free codecs so aren't included by > default.To be clear: flv and avi caused it to complain about the lack of mp4 codecs. Is there something dragon or totem will play out of the box? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards
On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7. > > > > I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had > > differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise) > > the drivers from CentOS 7. > > I've been looking. > I keep finding claims that Fedora live CD's exist, > but not actual images.https://getfedora.org/ specifically https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ What it actually does is to download Fedora Media Writer which when run downloads the correct image and writes it to a memory stick.> > To be clear: > flv and avi caused it to complain about the lack of mp4 codecs.Yes, because MPG codecs are not license free.> > Is there something dragon or totem will play out of the box? >Probably WebM and OGG video as they are both patent/license free. If you are looking for something try https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Buck_Bunny_Trailer_1080p.ogv (that's an open source, royalty free movie using open codecs). P.