Newbie to Qubes from years of Mint. New installation of QubesOS 4.0.3 and still in confusion mode. When in either the “Work” or a disposable VM and using Thunderbird, I cannot play mp4’s. Most other audio files play fine through firefox. But for mp4’s the video portion will play, but there is no…

Thanks again, @Qubesquark . The solution was moved here: [image] Playing media files in Fedora-based Qubes Community Guides Fedora-based templates out of the box cannot play some common video formats such as mp4. This tutorial installs the VLC Media Player in Fedora. Insta…

I have no idea about fedora templates, so I don’t know how to fix that specific issue. But my temporary suggestion would be to install vlc and use that.

Thanks but still no success. Unless I’m mistaken, I cannot install an app (such as vlc) directly through a VM, but need to do it through a template using Terminal. I tried “sudo dnf install vlc” but get the error message, “error: Unable to find a match vlc”. I don’t see any listings anywhere of i…

You are right, apps are usually installed in templates. In Fedora you have to add the RPM Fusion Repository in order to be able to install VLC, if I recall it correctly. I think in Debian it is available without adding a repository. There are a lot of good video players available: https://www.tec…

Thanks Raphael. I did manage to (apparently) install vlc following the vlc installation for fedora listed on their website. But I cannot access it as far as I can tell. I needed to enable the fusion repo with vim by toggling the 0 value to 1, before I could install vim, which then seemed to insta…

[image] Qubesquark: before I could install vim Sorry that should have read install vlc.

For playing video content in general it’s easier to do with debian. So I suggest you change the template of that qube to debian-10, which you can easily do on that qube’s settings. Then you can simply install vlc on the template with sudo apt install vlc (on the debian-10 template) and then startin…

Thanks deeplow. I have just gotten vlc to work in the fedora 30 disposable vm. It just needed a system reboot. But I will definitely try your debian suggestion though, as that’s far more familiar to me. Really enjoying the concept of Qubes. Will stick with it.

[image] Qubesquark: I have just gotten vlc to work in the fedora 30 disposable vm. Cool. For the sake of future notes (and if you still remember) can you mention the commands that worked for you to put it working on fedora? I remember having tried that a while ago with no sucess. For future …

Just rember that if you installed all that stuff on the DisposableVM and not on the TemplateVM, when you close it, you’ll loose all the changes :wink:

@Qubesquark thanks a lot for your contribution :slight_smile: that’s pretty detailed! In the future this will help many other users get VLC on fedora templates. If you don’t mind, I’ll move that explanation to the #user-support:how-tos section. One of the nicest features of discourse is the search…

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