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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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8 thoughts on - CentOS 8 Gstreamer And Mplayer

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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

  • yeah, I dig VLC, I use it on multiple platforms, and it consistently seems to be able to play everything without any nonsense.

    Looks like rpmfusion is the distro of choice for it on CentOS/rhel 8….

  • 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.

  • 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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