Could not locate full support for the H.265 video codec; video playback support may be less reliable than expected

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trying to open a video file and this is the message dragon player is giving and on VLC its saying
VLC could not decode the format “hevc” (MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265))

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From the command line / terminal:

Install RPM Fusion Free repository.

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

and then install libavcodec-freeworld

sudo dnf install libavcodec-freeworld

And now I can watch all my videos!

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