On 4 March 2015 at 23:45, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> wrote: > I like that owl has been replaced by gst-player, but I need > some help figuring out how to get it working :-( If you ask > it to play something and it doesn't have the appropriate > plugins available, it just sits there and acts stupid (no > error popup, nothing...). For example, I tried to play a > MP4 file downloaded from YouTube and it complained: > Now playing /home/root/Vlad+Louise.mp4 > Missing plugin: H.264 decoder > ... > Missing plugin: MPEG-4 AAC decoder > ... > (those are only the relevant lines which I got by running it > by hand in a terminal window). > > Any idea what I need to get installed to play this file? >
Yes, we should probably patch it to hook into those signals and show a dialog with more useful diagnostics. If you have recent Intel HW, gstreamer-vaapi-1.0 will handle H264 in hardware. Otherwise gstreamer-libav has an AAC decoder and a software H264 decoder. Ross
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