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Point is.sorry, but the question is not even remotely.'UNSOLVABLE'. Of course it's also linked to ffmpeg as well. So chances are there might exist a much better way of getting such info out of it. With vlc, at least at first glance, cli identification of supported decoders,Īppears to be somewhat more murky (as in 'less detailed') at least compared to above.īut i didn't really digged much into it (didn't bothered checking the sources for hints), With mpv (ffmpeg-based for the most part), mpv -vd=help & mpv -ad=help will also tell you exactly what's supported. Chromium does as well.įfmpeg -codecs / ffmpeg -decoders will tell you exactly what's supported in your installed build. Gstreamer used to be the backend for Firefox. x-libav is installed, you also get ffmpeg support.įor exact library version's details. Parses / uses all of such (and even more correctly), that's another story (and i'm not the one to ask about it).Īssuming gstreamer1. Now whether Xplayer (or whatever other Gstreamer-based player), Gst-inspect-1.0 | grep dec | less will give you a list of all decoders supported / enabled for Gstreamer. But all-in-all, even from a purely technical aspect, quite frequently a 'hack job' in every sense of the word. Let's not discuss whether that complied with the various open-source licences or outright violated such: Frequently as well, such were.partially ported and/or hacked around,įrom bits & bytes taken from.typically unix software: open src 'reference implementations',Īnd even more frequently, from.guess what (again).ffmpeg. What is not convenient though is that.WMP was pure crap-fest in almost all cases,Īnd the various 'freeware' DirectShow filters written & distributed out there in 'codec packs', I will give you though that having such info displayed in a 'Help' box is probably convenient for end-users. How could it ever be otherwise for any player on any system out there? Of course and their very own media player would know what codecs it uses / loads. To keep it short:įor any video / audio to be played under WMP, the codec (almost always) had to use DirectShow in the first place. To a more modern api called Media Foundation. Later on they changed such (completely? no idea, didn't really followed much myself),
#Windows check installed codecs windows
Windows used an interface called DirectShow for media decoding. as for the 'Windows Media Player' part above.
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Is there a way to get all this info under Mint, or is it a case of compiling a list by hand after visiting Synaptic Package Manager and Software Manager?
#Windows check installed codecs install
In windows i often install k-lite codecs (Mega), as they are free and cover most bases, then the above trick in Media Player shows what is on the system in terms of codecs. So in Windows it can be a pain to 'see' what codecs you have installed, and the way i do it is to launch Windows Media Player (yuk!), 'show the toolbar' which brings up the 'help' tab, click on that and on the pop-up 'About Windows Media Player' i can select 'Technical Support Information' from the bottom blue link and it opens a browser window with all the media codecs listed and installed on the system (Audio and video).
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Ok thanks t42, and i suppose what Pjtor suggested after is kind of like all of in the Software Manager it shows that (mint-meta-codecs) under 'Multimedia Codecs' and it seems they were installed as default with my 19.1 XFCE. I 'think' installing these has produced smoother video playback in youtube, is that likely? So it seems my fresh(ish) install of 19.1 XFCE did not have the H264 or H265 codecs by default, but now should? Which brings me back to the main question, how can i see what codecs are installed in a Linux Mint installation? also called H.265/HEVC video stream encoder. also called H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 Part 10 (this has some dependencies also). I then fumbled around in various places that sound like they might handle codecs (video stuff etc).
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So this confused about codecs LM user did some duck-duck-go searches and ended up in the Synaptic Package Manager (LM menu button>System>Synaptic Package Manager). There is probably a command line for that, i just don't know it.Īlso as we (i think) don't get all the codecs as default in Linux Mint anymore (since Linux Mint 18?) due to the extra workload involved in maintaining all that, do we not have any topped/pinned 'How to' threads for users to do this for themselves?