Parole needs H.264 decoder to play this file

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 21:32:27 UTC 2015


On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Parole needs H.264 decoder to play this file.
>>> What can I do to fix the problem?
>>
>> dnf install gstreamer-ffmpeg
>
> Thanks, Heinz, but that has not solved the problem. Kevin Fenzi wrote
> in my bug report:
>
> ------------------------
> So, H.264 isnt a codec Fedora ships (It has patents associated with it).
>
> parole moved from gstreamer 0.10, to gstreamer1 in that update.
>
> Likely you have a package that provides a H.264 decoder for gstreamer
> 0.10, but not gstreamer 1 installed. Likely it's called
> 'gstreamer-plugins-ugly' or similar. If you install the
> 'gstreamer1-plugins-ugly' from the same place the new parole should
> play those files.
> ------------------------
>
> The problem still persists, unfortunately.
>
> My installed gstreamer packages are the following:
>
> gstreamer.x86_64
> gstreamer-ffmpeg.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-bad.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-bad-free.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-base.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-espeak.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-good.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly.x86_64
> gstreamer-python.x86_64
> gstreamer-tools.x86_64
> gstreamer1.x86_64
> gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free.x86_64
> gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld.x86_64
> gstreamer1-plugins-base.x86_64
> gstreamer1-plugins-good.x86_64
> gstreamer1-plugins-ugly.x86_64

I have just fixed the problem with:

dnf install gstreamer1-libav

Paul


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