Multimedia on Fedora

Once RPM Fusion is configured (see https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration)

Switch to full ffmpeg

Fedora ffmpeg-free work but one will experience version missmatch, switch to the rpmfusion provided ffmpeg build.

sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing

Install additional codec

This will allows the application using the gstreamer framework to play others restricted codecs:

• The following command will install the complements multimedia packages needed by gstreamer enabled applications:

  sudo dnf groupupdate multimedia --setop="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin

• The following command will install the sound-and-video complement packages needed by some applications:

  sudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-video

  
  

Hardware Accelerated Codec

Intel(recent)

# Using the rpmfusion-nonfree section

sudo dnf install intel-media-driver

Intel(older)

# Using the rpmfusion-free section

sudo dnf install libva-intel-driver

Hardware codecs with AMD (mesa)

# Using the rpmfusion-free section This is needed since Fedora 37 and later... and mainly concern AMD hardware since NVIDIA hardware with nouveau doesn't work well

sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld

If using i686 compat libraries (for steam or alikes):

sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers.i686 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld.i686
sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers.i686 mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld.i686

Hardware codecs with NVIDIA

The Nvidia proprieatary driver doesn't support VAAPI, but there is a wrapper that can bridge NVDEC/NVENC with VAAPI

sudo dnf install nvidia-vaapi-driver

Play a DVD

You need to have the libdvdcss package, to install libdvdcss you need enable tainted repos.

• Tainted free is dedicated for FLOSS packages where some usages might be restricted in some countries.

  sudo dnf install rpmfusion-free-release-tainted
  sudo dnf install libdvdcss

Various firmwares

• Tainted nonfree is dedicated to non-FLOSS packages without a clear redistribution status by the copyright holder. But is allowed as part of hardware inter-operability between operating systems in some countries :

  sudo dnf install rpmfusion-nonfree-release-tainted
  sudo dnf --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted install "*-firmware"

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