Fedora 43 Kinoite - cannot play or edit videos

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I have two PC’s and a laptop running Kinoite, Since upgrading to 43 I can no longer play or edit videos on any of them. “Missing Codecs” with VLC and Clapper

Just found that Kodi works.

Kadenlive opens videos but only plays sound.

I still have 1 PC running 42 and that will play and edit videos.

Any suggestions,

Thanks, Vince.

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Did it work in F42 and it doesn’t now? How did you install the codecs?

If you’re using VLC from the Fedora repos, you’d need additional codecs. Easiest would be to layer RPM-Fusion repos (if not done already), then run:

rpm-ostree install libavcodec-freeworld

The other way is to go with multimedia apps from Flathub, which would then bring the needed runtime extensions for multimedia codecs.

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Hi, in 42 VLC just worked without having to install anything else.

Neither of your suggestions worked. Installing from flathub gave me a green screen wirh sound and no error messages.

The command “rpm-ostree install libavcodec-freeworld” came back with an error “repositories not found” but worked fine after the following command.

sudo rpm-ostree 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

VLC now works fine and so does Kdenlive video editor.

Thank you for the help.

Vince.

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Hi, in 42 VLC just worked without having to install anything else.

Neither of your suggestions worked. Installing from flathub gave me a green screen wirh sound and no error messages.

The command “rpm-ostree install libavcodec-freeworld” came back with an error “repositories not found” but worked fine after the following command. From- Making sure you're not a bot!

sudo rpm-ostree 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

VLC now works fine and so does Kdenlive video editor.

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That’s why I’ve linked the page referring to the installation instructions of the RPM-Fusion repos, before running the install command.

You’re welcome!