CentOS Stream 9 lacking codecs

Issues related to applications and software problems and general support
Post Reply
mmj
Posts: 1
Joined: 2022/02/27 08:58:17

CentOS Stream 9 lacking codecs

Post by mmj » 2022/02/27 09:14:44

I am trying CentOS 9-Stream as a desktop, but it is missing codecs for most audio and video content making it a little boring as a daily desktop. For Firefox I believe these are usually delivered through FFmpeg. Errors in Firefox are: "To play video, you may need to install the required video codecs."

Is there a plans to build and supply the tooling required to use CentOS Stream 9 as a desktop?

Thank you!

User avatar
jlehtone
Posts: 4523
Joined: 2007/12/11 08:17:33
Location: Finland

Re: CentOS Stream 9 lacking codecs

Post by jlehtone » 2022/02/27 12:41:39

I don't think that CentOS Stream 9 has any less codecs than RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 have. That is, RHEL does not provide that stuff.

RPM Fusion https://rpmfusion.org/ does. They will probably build for EL9 too, once RHEL 9 is released.

DtiA
Posts: 2
Joined: 2022/03/07 10:19:57

Re: CentOS Stream 9 lacking codecs

Post by DtiA » 2022/03/07 10:22:26

does anyone have any help with this. at the moment the whole distro feels completely useless because i can't find a way to make the videos show.

User avatar
TrevorH
Site Admin
Posts: 33191
Joined: 2009/09/24 10:40:56
Location: Brighton, UK

Re: CentOS Stream 9 lacking codecs

Post by TrevorH » 2022/03/07 11:02:49

CentOS Stream 9 is a pre-release of a beta operating system. Until the distro that it is based on - RHEL 9 - goes GA, there will be very limited support for it from any third party repos. Pretty much all mulitmedia stuff is always in third party repos because Red Hat a) don't see them as useful on an Enterpriose o/s and b) they don't want to include them for fear of being sued (a lot of multimedia is patent encumbered).
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

scottro
Forum Moderator
Posts: 2556
Joined: 2007/09/03 21:18:09
Location: NYC
Contact:

Re: CentOS Stream 9 lacking codecs

Post by scottro » 2022/06/29 11:52:08

Coming to this thread a few months afterwards. I've been playing with AlmaLinux 9. If you install rpmfusion repos, you can get vlc which will handle just about anything. There is, however, no mplayer or mpv. On rpmfusion's configuration page, https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration, they mention a sound-and-video group, but doing dnf group info sound-and-video lists several packages, such as mplayer and mencoder that aren't in their rhel9 stuff. There is a flatpak for mplayer that seems to work pretty well. Even on a more minimal install, I could get videos playing by installing ffmpeg and compat-ffmpeg4 (both from rpmfusion).

As they usually do an mpv package for RHEL, (they being the rpmfusion people), I think there's hope that we'll see one sooner or later.

I have a small page on what I've come across, at https://srobb.net/rhel9.html Don't know how useful it is, but it speaks about how I build a couple of packages, feh from source, and tint2 from a Fedora 34 rpm, and what I did with multimedia.
New users should check the FAQ and Read Me First pages

drokmed
Posts: 13
Joined: 2005/11/18 18:48:37
Location: St Petersburg FL USA

Re: CentOS Stream 9 lacking codecs

Post by drokmed » 2022/07/02 02:32:12

Why not just use fedora for desktop?

The thought of using centos stream 9 for desktop never even occurred to me. I'm happy with it for servers though.

Post Reply