On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 00:22 +0600, Muntasim-Ul Haque wrote: > Hi, > I installed parole media player in Debian 8 jessie Xfce, but > couldn't > run it. Then after some digging, I installed gstreamer0.10-plugins- > good > package and was able to run parole. But I couldn't play anything > using > parole. Every time I open any media file uisng parole, I get the > same > error message: "Additional software is required. Parole needs H.264 > decoder to play this file. It can be installed automatically." > I click the Install button every time, but that doesn't do anything. > How > can I solve this problem? > Thanks. > You probably need all the packages that parole have listed as suggestions: sug: gnome-codec-install Package not available sug: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg Package not available sug: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set sug: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set Not playing common formats by default is actually an existing bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681276 I'm not sure what the reason is for the -ffmpeg package to be listed as not available, I would assume you need that too. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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