• devfuuu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh the good old days of suffering from a distro based on the US that has to follow the stupid laws of software patents and problems coming from all that shit.

    One of the top reasons to use Arch when I started because of the pragmatic approach of do not giving a fuck.

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    Try this:

    sudo dnf update
    sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
    sudo dnf groupupdate core
    sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
    sudo dnf groupupdate multimedia --setop="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
    sudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-video
    
    

    You should also add the hardware accelerated codecs, by following the appropriate section depending on your hardware:
    https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryHowto%5Cb%29

    Make sure to reboot.

    If this still does not work, install Celluloid and enjoy the superiority of mpv.

    • candle_lighter@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I was actually using Celluloid before but videos were not playing until I used the commands you gave. Gnome videos is now crashing but I don’t care as much since Celluloid is now working

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        1 year ago

        I was actually using Celluloid

        Celluloid is an MPV client and installing GStreamer codecs, as you did initially, does nothing. I didn’t recognize Celluloid on the screenshot, though.

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    Didn’t some distro remove hardware transcoding support for some non-free codecs for AMD hardware? I remember being really pissed at Manjaro for that a while ago when I noticed Plex was devouring my CPU. Maybe something related to that if you got AMD and hardware acceleration is forced?

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    I ran into something like this the last time that I installed Fedora. They have (or used to have) a fairly hardcore stance about nonfree codecs, which includes anything licensed under MPEG LA.

    The codec in your screenshot probably doesn’t include support for H.265 playback - at the very least it isn’t in the list of formats. Here’s a guide that I googled for you: https://ostechnix.com/how-to-install-multimedia-codecs-in-fedora-linux/

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        Well, dang! I’m sorry to read that. Codecs are definitely a tricky issue for Fedora.

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      True. They created x265 afaik. I literally only layer libavcodec-freeworld on Fedora Kinoite and thats all I need. VLC does everything. BUUUT the Flatpak is not official! And there is already VLC 4.0 out! So helping the Dev is always important, and Videolan would make it officially maintained like the snap, if the Flatpak devs approach them and explain everything etc.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      Oh. I was reading OP’s problem, and didn’t understand. I’ve been on Fedora for a while and never experienced this, but VLC is one of the first programs I install on every new distro.

  • uis@lemmy.world
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    I’m not sure what player you are using and what decoder it uses, but I suggest checking if you have h265 support in ffmpeg. If you do, you can play with ffplay anyway :)

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    1 year ago

    insteall it from dnf, not flatpak

  • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I had this problem, but after not being able to resolve it I tried Bazzite and found the gaming experience was much better there anyway, so switched. This problem doesn’t exist on that distro.

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    I just installed fedora a couple of days ago and this happens to me too…

    I guess I’ll try a different distro 🤷‍♂️ it was being a nice experience until I tried to play a video