GNU bug report logs - #44453
MPEG-4 AAC decoder plugin is not installed

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Package: guix;

Reported by: musics <at> tutanota.com

Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 21:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: musics <at> tutanota.com

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: 44453 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44453: MPEG-4 AAC decoder plugin is not installed
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 12:03:28 -0500

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 10:27:33PM +0100, musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> To play a video with totem, I have this problem:
>  
> An error occurred
> The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-4 AAC decoder plugin which is not installed.
> 
> What package should be installed?

I'm not 100% sure, but I think you'd need the "bad" set of GStreamer
plugins — the package is called gst-plugins-bad. Totem is based on
GStreamer and gst-plugins-bad includes the faad2 AAC decoder.

Maybe we should add these plugins to our Totem package?
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