Hi,
I’ve been a RHEL clone user since CentOS 4.x, and as far as I can remember back, multimedia codecs and plugins have always been an unholy mess. EPEL has all the free stuff, but to handle the patent-encumbered stuff, you have to use RPMFusion. And sometimes there seems to be some hostile takeover of a package and suddenly there’s conflicts everywhere.
Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstasf.so conflicts between attempted installs of gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-1:1.22.1-1.el9.x86_64 and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free-1.22.12-3.el9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstdvdlpcmdec.so conflicts between attempted installs of gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-1:1.22.1-1.el9.x86_64 and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free-1.22.12-3.el9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstdvdsub.so conflicts between attempted installs of gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-1:1.22.1-1.el9.x86_64 and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free-1.22.12-3.el9.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstrealmedia.so conflicts between attempted installs of gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-1:1.22.1-1.el9.x86_64 and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free-1.22.12-3.el9.x86_64
So here’s a simple question. I’m running Rocky Linuxy 9.6 with KDE from EPEL. My standard multimedia applications are Audacious for audio, MPlayer and VLC for video. And then some other stuff like OBS studio, Openshot, Audacity, etc.
Which codec and plugin packages from EPEL and RPMFusion do you suggest to install under the hood for current multimedia stuff being handled correctly? Keeping in mind that some of these packages seem to conflict with each other. I’m thinking about all the vlc-plugin-* packages and the gstreamer1-* packages.
Cheers,
Niki