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Questions tagged [codec]

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"H.264 (High Profile) decoder is required to play the file"

I'm trying to play videos I recorded from my mobile phone (the stock video / photo app on a Samsung Galaxy On7). When I click them I get the following error message from Totem on Fedora 28: H.264 (High Profile) decoder is required to play the…
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What settings can I use to maximize FFMpeg performance?

I'm trying to do some screencasting, but since my computer is much too old and slow the video being produced is laggy and the application I'm trying to record becomes unresponsive due to the CPU consumption. Since I can't upgrade at the moment, I'm…
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Handbrake new VP9 codec is grayed out

Handbrake new VP9 codec is grayed out and could not be used. I installed Linux Mint fresh from ppa repo that is referenced on their homepage. libav and the vpx-tools are installed. What have I missed? What can I check?
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H.264 support for Opera and openSUSE

I am using openSUSE Leap 42.2 and Opera 46.0.2597.57. Some videos on the internet (maybe the half on YouTube) do not work on Opera. YouTube tells me that I cannot watch the video and suggests me visiting https://www.youtube.com/html5. H.264 and MSE…
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How to play a G2M4 encoded .wmv file (Ubuntu)?

I was using Ubuntu 13.04 (end of life) - now using 13.10. I have this .wmv video file. When I try to play it on vlc, it shows the error below, there is no video but the audio is working properly: No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the…
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H265 Supported Hardware

How do I know if underlying hardware supports H.264 or H.265 ? I want to play H.264/H.265 video by hardware encoding only. I am using Ubuntu-19.04 now.
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Audio Port: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for Audio Port

I have installed Arch Linux (x86-64) on a tabled, which is Chuwi Hi12. I have downloaded this sound codec specific for this tabled here: https://github.com/kernins/linux-chwhi12/tree/master/sound/soc/codecs I compiled and installed it. The problem…
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Netflix and Linux and VM

I heard that Netflix needs PlayReady 3.0, Widevine, HEVC 10 bits de/encoder, HDCP 2.2... to play 4K/UHD contents So I want to know if Linux support these technologies, and if Netflix support those Linux frameworks I want to know too, if Linux can't,…
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Codec Issue with OpenSuse (Tumbleweed)

I just installed OpenSuse for the first time in my life. I am trying to run some videos on it. But VLC throws an error VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) I tried searching for some solutions but could not find any…
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H.264 videos fail in Firefox or Chromium on Fedora 30

https://www.youtube.com/html5 reports my browsers (Firefox 66.0.5-1.fc30 and Chromium 73.0.3683.86-2.fc30) on my Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 with a Radeon RX-580 GPU don't support H.264. I've tried installing gstreamer1-plugin-openh264.x86_64,…
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E: Package 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad' has no installation candidate

I turned on the "Video Capture" option in VirtualBox, recorded a video in webm format, shut down the virtual machine and tried to play this video, but I got this error in the Totem video player: An error occured. Could not demultiplex…
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MPlayer Plays Video too Fast When "pcm_u8" Audio Codec Used

Running SMPlayer as my MPlayer (version svn 34540 (Debian Wheezy)) front end. I have two .avi video files. Both are identical to each other except for the audio codecs used (FYI, both use the "mpeg4 (Simple Profile)" video codec). One file uses…
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Trouble with codecs and youtube-dl on Fedora

I have spent about 90 minutes today trying to download a video from youtube and extract its audio. At first I had issues with not having ffmpeg installed. Apparently it is no longer possible to install via dnf, and I cannot get RPM to work for…
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How do I resolve this GStreamer codec update fault?

I recently installed KUbuntu on a Lenovo Ideapad laptop. It's functioning fine aside from a problem that came up with a recent update—after updating all packages, three remained: GStreamer Multimedia…
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What are the advantages of using an audio codec with mainline Linux support?

I am a hardware designer who is working on a custom processor circuit board with audio support. Our intention is to have the processor running some flavor of Linux and interface with the audio chip over PDM/I2S. One of my considerations in selecting…
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