GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 587730
H.264 Decoder not detected despite installed
Last modified: 2009-07-06 11:17:02 UTC
Please describe the problem: When trying for example to play a YouTube video in Totem or Swfdec(both uses GStreamer), it says that it requires a H.264 Decoder to play, and when you click the Search-button, it suggests gstreamer-plugins-bad, but by some reason can't install it directly, as it apparently conflicts with gstreamer-plugins-good... I tried to install it by command-line(sudo yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad), but it still isn't detected! I know it can detect parts of the package, as it previously asked me for an AAC decoder which apparently was in the bad-package too, and i can hear sound but there's only visual effects instead of video, and it keeps telling me i need the H.264 Decoder. If you try installing it graphically again, it says it's already installed I'm using the Swedish version of Fedora 11 Leonidas, with the latest version of both Totem and GStreamer Steps to reproduce: 1. Install "totem", "totem-youtube" and all "gstreamer-plugin-*" packages 2. Run Totem, and in the drop-down menu where it says "playlist", choose youtube 3. I searched for the video "Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Final Boss OHKO", you'll only get one match 4. Try playing it Actual results: At least on my computer, it asks me to install gstreamer-plugins-bad, but fails, saying that it conflicts with g.p. good, and if i install it by command-line, it says it's already installed... Expected results: It plays the video ofc. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
Created attachment 137825 [details] The box asking me to install the decoder Translation: ===Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Final Boss OHKO requires an extra plugin=== An extra plugin is required to play this content The following plugin is required: H.264-decoder Would you like to search for it now? [Help] [Close] [Search]
I don't see anything here that indicates a bug in GStreamer. It looks to me like you should take this up with your distro or the maintainer of any extra repositories you may be using for multimedia packages. FWIW, gst-plugins-bad does not provide a h264 *decoder*, only an *encoder*. You need gstreamer-plugins-ffmpeg or whatever it's called for your distro. To check from the command line whether you have the required decoder installed, run: $ gst-inspect-0.10 ffdec_h264 Closing as NOTGNOME. Feel free to re-open if you have any information that indicates that this is not a distro packaging/codec-install-app bug.