# Missing Codecs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Newbie\ **Created:** [November 8, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645 "2023-11-08T23:07:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mandarine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Mandarine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Mandarine)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645/1 "2023-11-08T23:07:34Z")
I just switched to EOS a week or two ago. I thought everything works well so far though i now noticed that on some games that include Videos these Videos don’t seem to play. I know it worked before on Manjaro so my guess is i missed something. I first noticed it on the Tony Hawk Remake. Videos there just wouldn’t play anymore. I followed the Arch Wiki for AMDGPU and already installed the packages mentioned for AMDGPU. Though that didn’t help. My guess is that i might miss some codec? I found out that the Videos that give me trouble are .mp4 and they play just fine when playing them manually with mpv. I guess i might somehow miss codecs for Flatpak (using Bottles there) ? Can anyone help me out? ---
**Author:** ![Svartis](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/svartis/32/108386_2.png) [@Svartis](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Svartis)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645/2 "2023-11-09T00:10:34Z")
```auto sudo pacman -S gstreamer gst-libav gst-plugins-base ``` and have a look if things are working. More options can be found here: [https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/GStreamer](https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/GStreamer) ---
**Author:** ![Mandarine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Mandarine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Mandarine)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645/3 "2023-11-09T09:11:05Z")
Ty i installed that packages however videos still refuse to play. Do i need to do anything to get that working with Flatpaks or something? ---
**Author:** ![Svartis](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/svartis/32/108386_2.png) [@Svartis](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Svartis)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645/4 "2023-11-09T11:55:35Z")
If the steps above doesn’t work, perhaps the best is trying to find out what type of codec is used for particular those videos, to find a precise solution. ---
**Author:** ![pebcak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/pebcak/32/100472_2.png) [@pebcak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/pebcak)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645/5 "2023-11-09T12:20:45Z")
> [@Mandarine](#): > > Do i need to do anything to get that working with Flatpaks or something? Doing a search for “flatpak codecs” lead me to: > [https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/available-runtimes.html#freedesktop](https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/available-runtimes.html#freedesktop) Looking at what I’ve got installed, I see, among other things: ```auto ffmpeg-full org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full 23.08 system openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.0 system openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.2.0 system ``` They must have got installed on my system as dependencies of other flatpak apps that I have unfortunately lost track of 😊 You might want to do some research in this direction. ---
**Author:** ![Mandarine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Mandarine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Mandarine)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645/6 "2023-11-09T14:16:36Z")
> [@Svartis](#): > > If the steps above doesn’t work, perhaps the best is trying to find out what type of codec is used for particular those videos, to find a precise solution. Apparently its` H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10` at least that is what mpv says about the videos. > [@pebcak](#): > > Looking at what I’ve got installed, I see, among other things: > > ```auto > ffmpeg-full org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full 23.08 system > openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.0 system > openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.2.0 system > > ``` I also have these installed which i guess should work for the Videos. Though still nothing lol. ---
**Author:** ![thefrog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/thefrog/32/114250_2.png) [@thefrog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/thefrog)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645/7 "2023-11-09T17:06:25Z")
have you tried looking at other videos from other sources ---
**Author:** ![Mandarine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Mandarine](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Mandarine)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/missing-codecs/47645/8 "2023-11-09T17:17:45Z")
If you mean just watching any videos then yes. I also tried the VLC-Player as Flatpak to see if it would be able to play the problematic videos which worked fine as well. In general i watch all kind of stuff on this computer. Have a lot of mkv files, watching youtube, Netflix, etc… all works as expected.