If i install ffpmeg from rom fussion in silverblue, will i able to get accelerated video decode as in silverblue all apps like video player and browser mainly firrfox and brave. Or i need to install apps as rpm to get the benifit
While ffmpeg
provides software codecs, for hardware accelerated video decoding, you’ll need to install hardware codecs. You can find more details in rpm fusion guide.
Additionally, hardware acceleration might be disabled by default. For instance, in Firefox, you may enable hardware acceleration by navigating to about:config
and setting media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled
to true
.
Directly installing ffmpeg
can lead to package conflicts in Silverblue. As an alternative, I recommend installing libavcodec-freeworld
and ffmpeg-free
to avoid these issues.
And finally, yes. Only native rpm apps can get the benefit.
On silverblue I prefer Firefox from flatpak with org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full
for accelerated video. With this I can avoid layered packages.
For video player I also use io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid
from flatpak. It comes with video accelerated support. But I think you need to do some adjustments. Preferences > Miscellaneous > Extra mpv options
= --hwdec=auto-safe --gpu-context=wayland
And lastly for picture and video thumbnails on nautilus I am using layered ffmpegthumbnailer
package from rpmfusion.
-
rpm-ostree override remove \ libavcodec-free \ libavfilter-free \ libavformat-free \ libavutil-free \ libpostproc-free \ libswresample-free \ libswscale-free \ --install \ ffmpegthumbnailer `# this is for nautilus video thumbnails / need rpm-fusion repo`
Any reason you have to remove those *-free packages? They don’t seem to conflict with ffmpegthumbnailer.
The major issue is that ffmpegthumbnailer needs ffmpeg not free to handle not free codecs, but ffmpeg not free is not compatible with ffmpeg-free and those related free packages (though you can get around with layering libavcodec-freeword).