COSMIC Media Player and AXON Bodycamera MP4s

[gottimhimmel]

Hello,

I know this is a niche issue.

I am an attorney. For security and personal reasons, I am attempting to migrate to POP OS (linux) for as much as possible.

Certain .mp4 videos do not work on COSMIC media player.

Where it has an orange icon, it won't load.

Where it has a thumbnail, it will work.

I'm not sure what determines whether the video will work or not, but it would be great if I could use COSMIC media player for all video files.

[mmstick]

Do you know which codecs those un-loadable files are using? If they require a restricted codec you will have to manually install libavcodec-extra and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly with sudo apt install libavcodec-extra gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly. We can't legally distribute this pre-installed since they are patented and the MPEG-LA requires royalties in the form of a per-device decoder license.

[mmstick]

On some GPUs, hardware decoding with VA-API is unstable which may require removing gstreamer1.0-vaapi with sudo apt remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi. This will then cause video players using gstreamer to use only software decoding though.

[gottimhimmel]

Hello, and thank you.

I did try the line in terminal that you provided. Unfortunately, that did not solve the issue.

1. Do you know which codecs those un-loadable files are using?

Unfortunately, I don't know what you mean, or how I would find out. I have attached screenshots here of the details page.

[nathansgithub]

@gottimhimmel Do the videos work in another video player, like VLC? You can get that in the COSMIC Store.