CentOS & Media Codec
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!
3 thoughts on - CentOS & Media Codec
You’d need codecs that can’t be included in upstream distribution, but some third-party repositories (see https://wiki.CentOS.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) like RPMfusion provide what’s needed and already built for .el8 (see also their
-testing repos)
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.
Fabian Thanks for the fast reply.
I just installed VLC.
:-)