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This distro is fabulous. I come from ArchLabs and Arch. Since it's so complete I wonder if all multimedia codecs are installed. I know on Ubuntu they are not. Any advice?
Last edited by wammes (2018-06-26 16:07:11)
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https://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
Run 'dpkg -l' to see what packages you have installed, or output it to a text file...
dpkg --get-selections >packages.list
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It depends on if you're using a gstreamer-based or other type of player. Non-gstreamer based ones (VLC, mplayer,mpv, qmplay2) can play pretty much everything with their built-in codecs/libavcodec, but gstreamer players have their codecs in various "good, bad, or ugly" plugin packages as well as gstreamer-libav/gstreamer-ffmpeg packages, which may not be installed by default. GNOME defaults to gstreamer players like "Movie Player".
Last edited by stevep (2018-06-23 18:30:09)
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^ this.
mpv will pull everything in.
VLC too, but i think it pulls it in only for itself?
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^ this.
mpv will pull everything in.
VLC too, but i think it pulls it in only for itself?
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/vlc-plugin-base (required by VLC) shows that VLC pulls in the ffmpeg libraries too, so it should require a superset of the main depencenies of other ffmpeg players, like mpv, mplayer, ffplay.
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Thanks everyone. The answers were of great help. I have no multimedia issues as of now
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how did you solve it?
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For the future googlers, with mpv one can get list of video and audio decoders.
mpv --vd=help
mpv --ad=help
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That’s what I did too. I had vlc installed. It comes with the distro. After installing mpv too, there were no missing multimedia codecs. So installing mpv is enough after installing the distro. It’s suggested in the menu so it’s an easy job.
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^ thank you from the future
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@wammes if you can remember what the extra codecs mpv pulled in were, maybe we could consider adding them to the default BunsenLabs install list? (For the benefit of future users. )
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the synaptic package manager has a history utility.
or you can look staright at... /var/log/dpkg.log
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