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jjramsey

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Registered: 2024-01-25

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[SOLVED] Trying to figure out how to make GNOME Videos app play MP4

IIRC, this used to work, but I had uninstalled GNOME, tried out KDE and some more minimal Wayland compositors, and then went back and installed the "gnome" and "gnome-extra" package groups. I'm guessing that some package that I needed didn't get installed again, but I can't figure out what.

Here are the results from running "pacman -Q | grep gst-plugin":

gst-plugin-fmp4 0.13.1-2
gst-plugin-gtk 1.24.8-1
gst-plugin-gtk4 0.13.1-2
gst-plugin-mp4 0.13.1-2
gst-plugin-pipewire 1:1.2.5-1
gst-plugins-bad 1.24.8-1
gst-plugins-bad-libs 1.24.8-1
gst-plugins-base 1.24.8-1
gst-plugins-base-libs 1.24.8-1
gst-plugins-good 1.24.8-1
gst-plugins-ugly 1.24.8-1

If I run GNOME Videos (a.k.a. "totem") from the command line, I get the following message:

** Message: 20:06:48.084: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|H.264 (Main Profile) decoder|decoder-video/x-h264, level=(string)3, profile=(string)main, coded-picture-structure=(string)frame, chroma-format=(string)4:2:0, bit-depth-luma=(uint)8, bit-depth-chroma=(uint)8 (H.264 (Main Profile) decoder)

VLC works just fine.

It seems like there must be a simple solution to this, but I can't quite figure out what.

ETA: I finally found the package that I needed to install: gst-libav

Last edited by jjramsey (2024-10-20 00:26:17)