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Multimedia, codecs, MP3 & DVD support on RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux …
Last updated on October 10, 2022
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This tutorial details how to install full multimedia support, media codecs, MP3 & DVD support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux.
Note: if you did’t add yourself to the sudoers, just rund every command of this howto as root, without the sudo prefix. Or follow this tutorial to add yourself to the sudoers.
Install GStreamer packages
Following packages should already be installed by default on a fresh RHEL / CentOS Oracle Linux (…) installation:
sudo yum install gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
Install the GStreamer modules which are available in the RPMForge repository – note that there are quite a few dependencies:
sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg
Apart of containing decoders, gstreamer-ffmpeg is the plugin Gnome needs to generate thumbnails for the file browser (Nautilus) and the desktop. Find more information on GStreamer modules on the GStreamer website.
Some of the dependencies are no less than ffmpeg (one of the most important codecs), lame, libcdaudio, libdvdread, libmodplug, libmpeg2, libquicktime, mjpegtools, x264 and xvidcore. Most of them are from RPMforge.
Install more codecs for CentOS
Give mplayer a try:
sudo yum install mplayer mplayer-gui
Once again, there are many dependencies for mplayer, among them esound-libs, libcaca (sic!), libvdpau, mpg123 and svgalib.
Finally, take a look at this page if you feel you’ll be missing w32codecs.
Add libdvdcss for DVD support
Following packages are available from RPMforge:sudo yum install libdvdnav libdvdplay lsdvd
The problematic package is libdvdcss, as it is not available through RPMforge. Libdvdcss can be obtained from Livna:sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm
Alternatively, you can browse Livna to download the package by yourself.
Install VLC Media Player
A Linux installation wouldn’t be complete without the King of all Video players, also available through RPMforge (it also has quite a few dependencies):sudo yum install vlc
That’s all! You should now be able to play any media format on CentOS.
By Johannes Eva, 2012 – October 2022
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10 thoughts on “AVIF browser test page: AVIF support in Chrome, Firefox, Edge…”
Ezgif even does animated AVIFs:
https://ezgif.com/avif-maker
AVIF is now supported in official Firefox 93:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/
Could you make a similar page for a JPEG XL test?
Thank you for your interest – a JPEG XL test page would be useful, but I have no time left at the moment. Hopefully at some time in 2022 🙂
The following plugin, coupled with the functions.php code mentioned in the post, will allow AVIF images to be uploaded via the Media Library.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/blob-mimes/
Sadly your site need javascript enable for the test avif vs jpeg. If noscript bloc everything, this page say that AVIF is not supported and display JPEG fallback.
In JS dependences there is also google-analytics that is not fair play for a libre-software website :(.
Thank you for your article anyway.
Actually, AVIF/JPEG fallback using the element is pure HTML and does not need Javascript, even on this site. And you’re right, I really should switch from GA to Matomo, it’s a matter of time. Cheers!
Nice article. Love how you included a detailed tutorial for WordPress. I have created a UX optimized converter that support bulk conversion, without the need of uploading files. You can find it on: https://avif.io/
The next update will include a settings panel on which you can edit the quality, effort and exif data.
Feel free to add it to the converter list if you feel like it’s a great addition. Sincerely, Justin
MConverter can convert most image formats to AVIF: https://mconverter.eu/convert/to/avif/
Another nice thing is that it supports batch converting of multiple files at the same time. For the compression it uses a CRF of 10, so the converted images look basically identical.
No option for android
I found this it really helped me and it support batch conversion please add it to the list:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ebusky.avif.image.viewer.converter.pdf