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.
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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. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
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. -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****
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. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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? -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:19 PM Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com> wrote:> > > Perhaps there's another repo like epel for CentOS 8 where these toys live? > >yes, rpmfusion is that repo. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz