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, 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.
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:53:18 +0100 Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote:> 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.google: mpv centos 8 vlc centos 8 Name : mpv Description : Mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide : variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. : Special input URL types are available to read input from a variety of : sources other than disk files. Depending on platform, a variety of different : video and audio output methods are supported. Name : vlc Description : VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework : that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and : various streaming protocols. BR, Bob