From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>, 44453@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44453: MPEG-4 AAC decoder plugin is not installed
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:06:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft5mb3fd.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106170328.GE28669@jasmine.lan>
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 10:27:33PM +0100, musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
>> To play a video with totem, I have this problem:
>>
>> An error occurred
>> The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-4 AAC decoder plugin which is not installed.
>>
>> What package should be installed?
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but I think you'd need the "bad" set of GStreamer
> plugins — the package is called gst-plugins-bad. Totem is based on
> GStreamer and gst-plugins-bad includes the faad2 AAC decoder.
gst-libav should also be sufficient. Also, it *might* be necessary to
install 'gstreamer' to the same profile that 'gst-*' is installed in, to
ensure that the environment variables are automatically set as needed.
> Maybe we should add these plugins to our Totem package?
I think it's important that plugins with patent-encumbered codecs, or
codecs with code quality issues, should remain *optional*, and not be
installed automatically. It should be possible to install a modern
desktop environment in Guix that does not include these codecs.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-06 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-04 21:27 bug#44453: MPEG-4 AAC decoder plugin is not installed musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-11-06 17:03 ` Leo Famulari
2020-11-06 21:06 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2020-11-07 16:55 ` bug#44453: musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-11-07 18:10 ` bug#44453: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-11-07 16:55 ` bug#44453: musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-11-07 20:05 ` bug#44453: musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-11-07 20:18 ` bug#44453: musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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