"H.264 (High Profile) decoder is required to play the file"
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I'm trying to play videos I recorded from my mobile phone (the stock video / photo app on a Samsung Galaxy On7).
When I click them I get the following error message from Totem on Fedora 28:

> H.264 (High Profile) decoder is required to play the file, but is not installed
Clicking "Find in programs" doesn't find an appropriate codec.
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The
file
tool labels them as "ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]".
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This is the error log when I run Totem from the CLI:
> ** Message: 12:57:35.979: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|H.264 (High Profile) decoder|decoder-video/x-h264, level=(string)4, profile=(string)high, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, chroma-format=(string)4:2:0, bit-depth-luma=(uint)8, bit-depth-chroma=(uint)8 (H.264 (High Profile) decoder)
Asked by That Brazilian Guy
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Sep 4, 2018, 04:11 PM
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