Saturday, October 12, 2013

Videos not playing in Fedora 19

Play videos in Fedora 19 – Movie player is the default video player in Fedora 19. While trying to play video in Fedora 19 you get the following error message.

Error message:
Movie Player requires additional plugins to decode this file:
The following plugins are required:
MPEG-1 Layer 3 ( MP3 ) decoder XVID MPEG-4 decoder

You get this error message if you try to play any video format such as avi, mkv, vob etc. Only format the video player support by default is webm.

Solution:
1. First install RPMFusion repository by running following command in the terminal as root.
#su
Enter the password for root user.
#'yum install --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2. After successfully completing the RPM Fusion repository installation, enter the following command to install codecs for Fedora 19 to play movies, videos and songs.

For GNOME shell:
# yum install gstreamer{1,}-{ffmpeg,plugins-{good,ugly,bad{,-free,-nonfree}}} ffmpeg

For KDE desktop environment:
 # yum install xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld k3b-extras-freeworld
 

Note: Text after ‘#’ should be entered in Terminal.

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