Hi,
I have been using Fedora Desktop for years but have decided to move away from it because the upgrade from Fedora 33 to 34 bricked the OS.
Thank you for making Rocky Linux available!
Given my experience with Fedora I like to think I can move my way around RL but I am having trouble with mp4 files.
When I try to play an mp4 file, Videos reports:
MPEG-4, AAC decoder, H.264 decoder are required
It then says to install via Software but when I go to Software, it reports 2 Gstreamer packages are installed, but I guess they are not providing the required codes.
I have tried the following:
Many dnf and Software searches such as “264”, “mp4” with no results.
dnf search gstream > provides many packages but I am not sure if this would be correct to install or which package to pick.
I tried installing rpmfusion but Software got hung up. (Assuming rpmfusion is a good thing to begin with).
I have also searched the fora here and only found:
This suggests installing VLC but I would prefer just to get Videos working.
I have also web searched “H264 centos 8” and many other searches.
Help with the following questions is much appreciated:
I think part of me not being able to find the right package is that I do not know which repos are supposed to be used with RL. Can rpmfusion repos work with RL? Centos 8 repos? RHEL 8 repos? Is there a list of repos that are supposed to be used with RL?
Curious why two packages from Microsoft are being used? Is this SOP and I just have to deal with a black box, or can somebody shed some light on what these two lines are? Associated with the “dnf groupupdate core” command in the resolution above.
Yeah, I get it; and I really need to run videos on this machine for now, so I guess I’ll deal with it.
But … that being said, if we are forced to download black box Microsoft software, it seems like … well, let me put it another way: I’m not using Windows for various reasons. One of those various reasons is that MS is notorious for going “above and beyond” in providing help to provide back door type of software services.
Anyway, I’ll take my paranoia and go away now. Thanks for being truthful.
Powertools used to be the name of a CentOS repo, I think, now replaced by crb. On alma at least, you can enable it with
sudo dnf config-manager --enable powertools.
The rpmfusion free and unfree repos have ffmpeg and mpv. Pretty sure those will cover most things you want to play.