Hello im trying to play some videos with totem on CentOS 8. I get the following message in the command line. "totem ** Message: 17:22:06.269: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|MPEG-1 Video decoder|decoder-video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, systemstream=(boolean)false (MPEG-1 Video decoder) (totem:12230): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:22:06.270: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node slider owner GtkScale) " I also get the following message. MPEG-4 Video (Simple Profile) decoder is required to play the file, but is not installed. Any ideas what i have to install in order to play it? Thanks in advance!
On 07/10/2019 17:26, Georgios wrote:> Hello im trying to play some videos with totem on CentOS 8. > > I get the following message in the command line. > > "totem > ** Message: 17:22:06.269: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|MPEG-1 > Video decoder|decoder-video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, > systemstream=(boolean)false (MPEG-1 Video decoder) > > (totem:12230): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:22:06.270: Drawing a gadget with > negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node slider > owner GtkScale) > " > > I also get the following message. > > MPEG-4 Video (Simple Profile) decoder is required to play the file, but > is not installed. > > > Any ideas what i have to install in order to play it? > > Thanks in advance! >You'd need codecs that can't be included in upstream distribution, but some third-party repositories (see wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) like RPMfusion provide what's needed and already built for .el8 (see also their -testing repos) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20191008/d117dc23/attachment-0002.sig>
FWIW, of late, my favorite portable video player is Kodi (originally xbmc), which is meant as a TV settop remote control friendly play-everything. I mostly run it on an Android settop box (NVidia Shield) attached to our TV, but I know you can run it on most any linux. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz